Marshall McLuhan 1968 - The End of Polite Society

In this video produced by the Canadian Broad Coopt for a show called The Way It is with the title The End of Polite Society in 1968. Interviewed by Robert Fulford in a panel with Marshall McLuhan, Malcolm Muggeridge (British TV talk-show host), and Norman Mailer (American writer). More information: One of the most charismatic, controversial and original thinkers of our time whose remarkable perception propelled him onto the international stage, Marshall McLuhan is universally regarded as the father of communications and media studies and prophet of the information age Biography McLuhan was still a twenty-year old undergraduate at the University of Manitoba, in western Canada, in the dirty thirties, when he wrote in his diary that he would never become an academic. He was learning in spite of his professors, but he would become a professor of English in spite of himself. After Manitoba, graduate work at Cambridge University planted the seed for McLuhan’s eventual move toward media anal