today's McLuhan - Pynchon synchronicity tidbit

[Mark Kohut]

That's a little strong, no?....Human beings are self-aware almost by definition....
Every culture may differ in what Wittgenstein called the "form of life"...

Notice that McLuhan spoke of their internalized sensual life....he argues their
self-awareness was as wide as their village..........that it internalized the Nature
in which they lived straight.......

he sez Westerners turned Nature into that cap word when it became Art once we
had denatured ourselves.............

----- Original Message -----
From: Jed Kelestron <jedkelestron at gmail.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: today's McLuhan - Pynchon synchronicity tidbit

Impossible to know if they even had self awareness by which to have
what we now call an inner life.

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Good counterpunch. He doesn't cite specific sources re this but he does
> write as if anthropologists, travellers, scholars might have the evidence
>
> BUT he might also argue like this: they are human. Understand their world
> day by living day....................\
>
> And we can see how much richer their sensations and internalizations of experience
> have to be.............................
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jed Kelestron <jedkelestron at gmail.com>
> To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Cc:
> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 10:07 AM
> Subject: Re: today's McLuhan - Pynchon synchronicity tidbit
>
> I haven't read McLuhan, but that assertion is rather silly, given that
> he has zero access to the inner life of pre-literate people.
>
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> McLuhan asserts that the inner life of pre-literate peoples
>> is much deeper, in general, than the inner life of literate
>> Westerners...
>>
>> Feelings, notions, perceptions fed by the all-aroundness of sense
>> perception, not just the singled-up eye of print readers....
>
>