NOTE:Timing based on Payday archives.
Oct.18/2014 1178055-3-1 Sept./67 (“OPEN-MIND SURGERY”):
(Part 13 at 22:31)
Steve Allen on grievances
23:58
Edison joke
24:50
white-boy joke
25:24
Hitler
26:08
Ray Bradbury on the quest for identity as violence (John Wayne, Blacks, and asceticism)
26:52
the Jazz Age and Negroes during radio and TV
27:55
Gertrude Stein and the Lost Generation (today’s 21-year olds)
28:18
1920’s and jobs
29:03
slums
29:31
swingers
29:47
predicts coming depression (“unless there is surgery”)
30:16
Germany in WW2 and us, too
30:34
programmed teaching machines (post-biology, millions of years in seconds)
31:02
the fish don’t know who discovered water
32:18
TV is an X-ray device (“the radiation goes right through us”) and children in school today
32:52
Vietnam as “education” (repeat of Julius Caesar with the Huns and Alexander the Great)
33:41
West is Orientalizing (“the inner trip”)
34:40
Black Power is empowered by TV
35:14
India, China, and Africa will become violent
35:58
obsolesced liberal, literate, fragmented mind
36:12
our different sensory spaces
36:35
newspaper has no story line
36:57
TV as Joyce’s “charge of the light barricade”
37:26
“FW is the greatest guide to the media ever devised on this planet”
37:43
Darwin didn’t intuit evolution as outer and programmable
38:07
Teilhard de Chardin was a little more aware of the meaning of the electronic than Darwin could possibly have been
38:41
Darwin’s obsession with thumbs, fingers, and appendages (“content of the old environment”)
38:50
By programming the total human environment as a teaching machine for the first time, rational man in the “computerized universe” can “get his first innings”
39:23
HCE notices change now
39:56
Utopias are rearview mirror (“Bonanzaland”) and why
40:36
easy to predict via media ecology (why the end of “stars” in entertainment and baseball)
41:34
Smothers Brothers and what the kids are interested in (“how things are done”)
42:17
Expo’67 (a mosaic with no story line or connections like the front page or the TV screen) vs. New York World’s Fair (1964)
42:44
no pictures on TV (“an involving mosaic situation”)
44:01
McLuhan’s not trying to “present any programs of action” but “to try and suggest ways of perceiving the situations we have developed for ourselves”
44:31
the Indian smoke-signal joke (Indians outdone by bomb blast [“I wish I’d said that”])
44:48
goat joke preferring the book
45:27
mice joke and cancer research (praises Steve Allen again)
46:18
no jokes in New York City (“not repeatable”)
46:47
comments on the coming depression again (feels guilty being negative)
47:19
predicts the dropout executive (role player) “phase”
47:45
“all activities now become associated and interrelated”
48:06
more on the obsolescence of the Organization Chart and baseball (one-thing-at-a-time is over)
48:30
mentions his testing in Toronto (literate kids’ immunity)
49:00
McLuhan’s desire to have discovered media ecology many years earlier
49:05
more on McLuhan’s testing of TV kids (“two kinds of human beings”) in Toronto
49:13
Vietnam is the first TV war (involvement bothers people)
50:16
uses Lewis’ term “gang” (predicts more and more draft dodgers)
51:03
“we do have a rather deep desire to work out a liveable equilibrium for the human community” (despite “designing fanciful reasons for these events” and “selecting very unfortunate and wasteful goals for our energies”)
51:21
“we do go to so much trouble to create violent upsets and disequilibrium” (doubts successful global reprogramming in the 60s and 70s )
51:49
“Columbus went too far” and “Plymouth Rock should have landed on the Pilgrims” jokes
52:10
“in our present world there cannot be a Columbus, and external exploration has ended” (“the future of exploration is necessarily internal, whether in medicine or entertainment”)
52:56
McLuhan ends by saying “I think I will fold my tents like the Arabs and quietly steal off”
53:20
