Hot and Cold Media- Pierce Hunt

Through the entirety of the reading, one phrase of McLuhan's jumped out at me. That "the spectacle of brutality used as a deterrent can brutalize. Brutality in sports can humanize under some conditions, at least." In comparison to the attitude of an eminent nuclear bomb, the society of McLuhan's became desensitized. Which explains his joking expression alludes to international politics just being a sport.