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	Comment before you read: My partner said that the way I talk about media is similar to the way McLuhan does. So, I'm curious.
	Comment after you read: I feel like I was 75% through a difficult book - I should get partial credit! But while the book had smart things to say, at some point I got tired of the repetitive examples, the aesthetically-pleasing-yet-groundless conclusions and especially, the way-colonialist depictions of "tribal" "primitive" "pre-civilization" man.

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4 years ago devpurkayastha started to read Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan after waiting 37 second to read it.

My partner said that the way I talk about media is similar to the way McLuhan does. So, I'm curious.

I feel like I was 75% through a difficult book - I should get partial credit! But while the book had smart things to say, at some point I got tired of the repetitive examples, the aesthetically-pleasing-yet-groundless conclusions and especially, the way-colonialist depictions of "tribal" "primitive" "pre-civilization" man.