The private point of view is "hot" because it is detached and non-corporate. The great variety of paradoxical patterns of "hot" and "cool" point to a complex new process that resists mere classification. Understanding is not a point of view.
Letter to The Listener, August 11, 1971, in Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987), p 435
Year: 1971
Chapter:
Perspective, Point of View
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan