[dba-Tech] Whatcha doin' Marshall McLuhan?

On 7/21/2011 12:58 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> I heard that he appeared quite mad at the end of his life.
It was when he was 55 years old, 14 years before his first (known) stroke).
> Many great people balance on the edge between madness and brilliance.
Yep, and some don't balance :-) .

> According to stories on his career, he suffered a series of small strokes
> and slowly deteriorated into a state of dementia.
>
> At least you can say you actually saw him perform so to speak. ;-)
After that, I didn't read him any more :-) .

PB

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> Jim
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> On 7/21/2011 12:35 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
>> A truly brilliant man...
> Yep, and mebbe brilliantly nuts. In a seminar, I could make sense of
> what he was saying only by listening to his talk it as if were
> schizophrenic thought disorder (no cogent arguments, unargued leaps,
> knight's moves, flioght of ideas, word salad&c). At the end, the world
> had figured him out---his last course drew just six students.
>
> PB
>
>> waded through one of his books many years ago. (I
>> think it was for some college paper, 30 or 40 years ago.)
>>
>> Quotes: "the medium is the message" and "the global village". He sure
>> understood the internet long before it was.
>>
>> Jim
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>> Today marks the 100th anniversary of Marshall's birth. He was a
> certifiable
>> nut-case but also a very brilliant thinker. I've read all his books and I
>> pretend to think that I understood what he wrote. He surely influenced me,
>> big time.
>>
>> RIP Marshall McLuhan.
>> A.
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