{"id":42,"date":"2003-06-25T16:11:59","date_gmt":"2003-06-25T20:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=42"},"modified":"2003-06-25T16:11:59","modified_gmt":"2003-06-25T20:11:59","slug":"mcluhan-on-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"McLuhan on Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Ramsay quote from McLuhan on Computer Games<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI just came across this paragraph in McLuhan.  He&#8217;s talking about comic books, but it seems directly applicable to the current situation of computer games:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first comic books appears in 1935.  Not having anything connected or literary about them, and being as difficult to decipher as the *Book of Kells*, they caught on with the young.  The elders<br \/>\nof the tribe, who had never noticed that the ordinary newspaper was as frantic as a surrealist art exhibition, could hardly be expected<br \/>\nto notice that the comic books were as exotic as eighth-century illumnations.  So, having noticed nothing about the *form*, they<br \/>\ncould discern nothing of the *contents*, either.  The mayhem and violence were all they noted.  Therefore, with naive literary logic,<br \/>\nthey waited for violence to flood the world.  Or, alternatively, they attributed existing crime to the comics.  The dimmest-witted convict learned to moan, &#8220;It wuz comic books done this to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Steve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Ramsay quote from McLuhan on Computer Games<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}