An interesting article over at Slog:
Those pundits and politicians who still insist that the Occupy protesters donât have a coherent message need to bone up on their Marshall McLuhan: The medium is the message. And the protest is the medium. What’s so hard to understand about that?
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But perhaps no aspect of these protests better illustrates McLuhan’s thesis than âthe Peopleâs mic,â which as silly as it may sound, and as mundane as its content may sometimes be, is a medium that inherently expresses a powerful message of solidarity and defiance, in and of itself.