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Re:Daydreaming about the future instead of doing work today by robc259 on Monday March 11, 2019 @12:51AM (#19356773)
I disagree. As Marshall McLuhan said, "the medium is the message." Poorly delivered messages are prone to be lost as noise.
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Re:Daydreaming about the future instead of doing work today by oasisbob on Monday March 11, 2019 @08:44AM (#19358502)
This critique is one of rhetoric - which is not what McLuhan meant in the concept contained in that quote at all.

Your complaint seems to be that the use of a sexual metaphor affects the ethos of the speaker in the eyes of some.

That metaphor is part of the message, regardless of whether or not you like it.

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