Posted by me in October, 2016:
Stages of Apprehension (Then, Now, Next) in the ANDROID MEME via McLuhan:
Yes, a more attentive study of McLuhan, usually via his PhD or early articles using its themes, leads one to an appreciation of the rhetorical and grammatical aspects of McLuhan’s oeuvre.
After one becomes overly familiar with that categorization and bored with the dull habit that emphasizes “grammaticus,” one notices MM’s output is predominantly dialectical as his obsessive pairing (hot vs. cool, visual vs. acoustic, etc.) becomes one’s FIGURE again.
One then understands MM juggled all the Trivium ecologically and one wouldn’t align his preference with any division of it.
Then one remembers the quadrivium and that MM said the artist leaves out the important sign-posts in his creative output, and how McLuhan stressed, “We live entirely by music.”
That’s when one realizes MM is a musician, if categories still insist.
So one starts to examine the four realms of the Quadrivium and one grasps that astronomy, arithmetic, geometry, and musical organization are in every line MM wrote, technically speaking.
Eventually, one notices MM insisted that there are no divisions between the traditional subjects and categories in education.
Naturally, one starts to swarm over issues and concerns listening for rhythmic alterations in a drumroll of moiré.
Subsequently, a news outlet invades your attention and one begins composing with the WORD THAT MAKES THE MARKET.
For example, with McLuhan’s learned technique of suspended judgement, one apprehends the pattern:
1. Hillary doesn’t know the diplomacy world-without-walls, TV Landscape/Body, is not much required anymore.
Trump doesn’t know how much is still required.
2. Hillary doesn’t know that the Chip Landscape/Body doesn’t require the patina of experience and knowledge anymore.
Trump doesn’t know how much is still required.
Scientifically, YOU TUNE THE DYNAMIC SYMMETRY OF TENSIONS AMONG PROPORTIONS TO THE KARAOKE OF YOUR CHOICE!!
