McLuhan's C/catholic f/pun

[John Carvill]

> Marshall McLuhan was a skeptic, a joker, and an erudite
> maniac. He read too deeply from Finnegans Wake, had too
> great a fondness for puns, and never allowed his fun to be
> ruined by the adoption of a coherent point of view.

Sounds....

> He was
> dismayed by any attempt to pin him down to a consistent
> analysis and dismissive of criticism that his plans were
> impractical or absurd.

...like...

> His characteristic comment during one
> academic debate has taken on a mythic life of its own. In
> response to a renowned American sociologist,
> McLuhan countered: "You don't like those ideas? I got
> others."

...someone...

> In a letter to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, with
> whom he had a long friendship, McLuhan argued that in the
> modern electronic environment, it is inadvisable to be
> coherent. "Any moment of arrest or stasis permits the public
> to shoot you down."


...we know.