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Explore Marshall McLuhan’s groundbreaking theories on communication, technology, and why "the medium is the message" in the digital age.
…war. This is the approved Western method of educating backward areas, is warfare. And Alexander the Great did it that way. Napoleon, I was reading a book on the Russian Revolution the other day in which the author was explaining enthusiastically that the…
…with the airplane. The streets disappeared too. You have the control tower, so... The driving on the right-hand side was initiated by Napoleon for the speeding of his armed forces. And where he did not go, right-hand side driving did not go. As in…
…know, a person. A tribal man. Like John. See, that's why John did it, because he was a peasant. A non-literate type like Napoleon. Yeah. And I really think that in terms of that whole world that was based so much, like other bureaucracies, I mean, it's…
…the romantic interest in ruins and in primitivism. Ocean. McPherson's Ocean was a colossal fake. of Celtic antiquities, which even got Napoleon all excited. He was a fan of this fake Gaelic masterpiece, Fingal's Cave. By the way, you've got yourself a swell…
…to give it back to me? I was just thinking, in warfare, the coming of armies organized a la Julius Caesar or Napoleon, marching men rose. You see, today, under electronic conditions, you don't have any more marching men. Guerrilla warfare again. Return to…
…the Goths and the Huns. He taught them how to stand up and march in straight lines like civilized people. Civilized means visual. Napoleon has been mentioned before as a great educator. You read any history of Russia and you'll find that one of the great…
…in Vietnam is total. It's not specialist, they're not getting courses. They're getting our whole culture by interface. Now this happened, Napoleon educated the Russians, in Western ways, far more than Peter the Great. And he taught him how to drive on the…
…Russians drive on the right-hand side? I have the impression that Russians drive on the right. I do? Well, anyway, where Napoleon went, there were technological reasons for his, and military reasons, why he wanted the traffic on the right-hand side. He…
…with the airplane. The streets disappeared, too. You have the control tower, so... The driving on the right-hand side was initiated by Napoleon for the speeding of his armed forces. And where he did not go, right-hand side driving did not go. As in…