Unhelpful

The astute will recognize that the random quotes happily gracing the top of your browser window each time you visit Unhelpful are the words of Marshall McLuhan. If you’re lucky, you may catch the profound “the medium is the message” phrase. If you were me, you’d be lucky enough to have an English professor who actually used that very quote in a class discussion, but not before referring to McLuhan as an “expert on modern media.”

After class, I asked my usually talkative and helpful professor WHY OH WHY she quoted, of all people, McLuhan. I told her I couldn’t believe it.

“Sorry.”

Sorry? I want to know her reasoning behind tainting an otherwise logical class discussion with the words of a token idiot, and I get a “sorry” in response? Adding insult to injury, she walked away after the “sorry.”

I understand now. Obviously well aware of her crime, she in all probability pleaded to Allah during the remainder of class, after the terminal error, that none of her students would pick up on it. I think it was pretty crappy of me to ruin her day.