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Wouldn't Marshall McLuhan chuckle were he alive today? Wouldn't he proudly own the finest audio instrument known to man - HD radio? ( Why HD even cures lumbego!)
Sure it's fun to lay about the barracks ogling sports and bimbos who pretend to sell chicom trash when in fact they're the 'massage', to use a McLuhanism.
Then combat pays unwelcome call. One must watch incoming, rather than tv. After all, why exclude oneself from the next Nielsen sweep?
All goes back to mr. bouffant and the wooden indian's 1994 emotional outburst re inability to compete with 'three hours of limbaugh' and those pesky 'voices of hate on shortwave'.
McLuhan claimed TV was a 'cool medium', better than radio for controlling and also better controlled by those who seek to dominate others due to their own lack of boundaries.
Compelling radio had to be submerged in favor of mindless albeit totally absorbtive tv.
Entirely too many subversives swanning about who can toss a wire out a window and reach the world, as did Nixon's attache during a South American 1950's riot. Can't have that.
Isn't it fun to watch the swells slowly outsmart themselves?
Snarkily,
=Z.=
pvz
mk fl
bt
"Talkin' to the ceilin',
Feelin' kinda ill.
If the radio doesn't get me,
the TV will."
- "Lights in the Night"
c. 1980, 'Flash and the Pan',
Vanda & Young
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