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Marshall McLuhan discusses a wide range of philosophical topics

Studs Terkel Archive Podcast

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The Importance of Popular Arcs

The Watusi is supposed to be totally expressive, expressionist and people call it conformist when the waltz and the old fox trotts away back when they were the conformist dances. The new dances are totally non-conformist. It's very difficult to perform any of those, to simulate any of those movements without being considerably original. Dance can't ride a bike, can't swim, can't do nothing. I'm the non-participant who talks. That's the trouble you see. We talk about the participating figure, Dr. McLuhan hits something very interesting here about the dances that occurred to me. He says it's the words, it

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