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The Legacy of McLuhan (Media Ecology)

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This book came out before Lance Strate and I had the opportunity to be counted as friends by each other on an internet social network that produced a few hundred million potential friends, many of whom just had a single picture of themselves and an invitation to join some other form of internet contact which they used more frequently. My interest in this book was not entirely what happens to someone who has seen poems by Lance Strate as one of the most interesting reflections on the rampant arch that scholars compete on for significance. I have an interest in McLuhan as a literary critic able to decide when someone is just rambling, rambunctious, or a ramification of changes in American culture since Jesus Christ walked this earth long ago in a different country. My interest in supernatural powers did not find a resting place among the secular points of view expressed by the communications scholars who provided most of the papers in The Legacy of McLuhan.

Like a killer on the rampage, the entertainment values promoted on TV often produce rambunctious children. I tried to make my children literary and somewhat churchified, but the culture which was rampant (in full sway, prevailing unbridled) was stiffening into a ramrod regimentation for uniformity which ultimately split my personality so much that the Vet Center wanted to make sure my shrink had given me a diagnosis, and the diagnosis was schizoid personality disorder. I was living in a ramshackle house with a ramshackle car, and everybody was expecting my luck to run out each time I got fired. Having a job aroused my inner rancidity. Now I am retired and still rancorous. This book did not answer any of the fundamental questions I have about the future of my sense of monstrosity.