What's great about this clip, as well as the fact that these heavy-weights are in conversation, is the way they're both dressed.
I suspect Wolfe is conscious of the irony, of course.
There he is an incredibly smart, incredibly insightful anti-intellectual dressed in a shirt and tie, ultra formal, looking ultra conservative...
& McLuhan, a man so intellectual, so at the forefront of highbrow cultural discourse, a man who endeavours to deconstruct virtually anything & everything that moves...
...there he is all casual and unbuttoned in what looks like an Aloha shirt fresh from the local Goodwill.
Just check out their shoes: even their shoes are at opposite ends of the sartorial spectrum!
White bucks vs Hush Puppies.
& the conversation! The respectful ideological word-fight!...
Don't you wish you could have been there, maybe up in one of those trees, just watching the whole drama unfold?
Or am I on my own with that current fantasy?
