{"id":3463,"date":"2012-04-18T08:45:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T15:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leftyparent.com\/blog\/?page_id=3463"},"modified":"2020-07-09T19:48:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T02:48:56","slug":"thoughts-on-marshal-mcluhan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.leftyparent.com\/blog\/looking-at-the-circle-of-equals\/thoughts-on-marshal-mcluhan\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshal McLuhan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leftyparent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/mcluhan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2750\" title=\"mcluhan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.leftyparent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/mcluhan-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.leftyparent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/mcluhan-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.leftyparent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/mcluhan.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><strong>One of my life&#8217;s &#8220;gurus&#8221; is media philosopher Marshall McLuhan who believed that we humans were profoundly impacted (mostly below the level of conscious awareness) by our communication technology. His mantra was &#8220;the media is the message&#8221; and he also came up with the term &#8220;global village&#8221;. (Click the highlighted title to read the entire piece.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leftyparent.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/17\/mud-wrestling-with-marshall-mcluhan\/\"><strong>Mud Wrestling with Marshall McLuhan<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Part 1 of a 3 part series giving an overview of McLuhan&#8217;s ideas based on his 1969 <em>Playboy<\/em> magazine interview.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leftyparent.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/06\/mud-wrestling-with-mcluhan-part-2-retribalization\/\"><strong>Mud Wrestling with McLuhan Part 2 &#8211; Retribalization<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Focusing in on McLuhan&#8217;s ideas about electronic media initiating a &#8220;retribalization&#8221; of human society.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leftyparent.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/10\/mud-wrestling-with-mcluhan-part-3-%E2%80%93-youth-and-education\/\"><strong>Mud Wrestling with McLuhan Part 3 &#8211; Youth &amp; Education<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; McLuhan&#8217;s critique of our education system, still stuck in a paradigm of industrialism and print media.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leftyparent.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/23\/the-mechanical-bride\/\"><strong>The Mechanical Bride<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; McLuhan&#8217;s analysis of U.S. culture in the 1950s based on looking thru the lens of its popular media, particularly advertisements and comics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leftyparent.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/30\/retribalized-by-my-lifes-soundtrack-%E2%80%9Cdowntown%E2%80%9D\/\"><strong>Retribalized by my Life&#8217;s Soundtrack: &#8220;Downtown&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Based on McLuhan&#8217;s ideas, looking at how electronic media, particularly popular music on the radio has impacted my life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leftyparent.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/09\/tales-of-a-retribalized-corporate-knowledge-worker-in-the-egalitarian-information-age\/\"><strong>Tales of a Retribalized Knowledge Work in the Egalitarian Information Age<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; How my work environment has been totally transformed by electronic media from my parents&#8217; generation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my life&#8217;s &#8220;gurus&#8221; is media philosopher Marshall McLuhan who believed that we humans were profoundly impacted (mostly below the level of conscious awareness) by our communication technology. 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