“A whirling phantasmagoria can be grasped only when arrested for contemplation” Marshall McLuhan, The Mechanical Bride I turn to the above quote sometimes when I feel overwhelmed by incoming transmissions. It’s a reminder that I usually have the option of stepping away from the screen or the conversation or the page or the oncoming traffic to slow the tape and think things through. I don’t have to react or even try to process. I can close my eyes and study what’s there. I can stop and contemplate a word or a figure or expression within the otherwise whirling phantasmagoria and calm down. I don’t have to believe everything that I breathe. I can take captive every thought.
All I can say, is: "Oh, my god!"