McLuhan and a grand central prank

after reading McLuhan's book, a past improv event came through my mind.
i think this prank flows well in many of McLuhan's words.

public freezing in the grand central .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6qWaJ-BG-k

"the public, in the sense of great consensus of separate and distinct viewpoints, is finished. today, the mass audience (the successor to the public) can be used as a creative, participating force." p.22

"ours is a brand-new world of alltonceness. time has ceased, space has vanished. we now live in a global village... a simultaneous happening. we are back in acoustic space. we have begun again to structure the primordial feeling, the tribal emotions from which a few centuries of literacy divorced us." p.63

"humor as a system of communication and as a probe of our environment-of what's really going on-affords us our most appealing anti-environmental tool. it does not deal in theory, but in immediate experience, and is often the best guide to changing perceptions. older societies thrived on purely literary plots. they demanded story lines. today's humor, on the contrary, has no story line- no sequence. it is usually a compressed overlay of stories." p. 92

"myth means putting on the audience, putting on one's environment. young people are looking for a formula for putting on the universe-participation mystique. they do not look for detached patterns- for ways of relating themselves to the world, a la nineteenth century." p.114


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