Marshall McLuhan Poet Artist Sleuth

The Emperor's New Clothes.

The poet, the artist, the sleuth —whoever sharpens
our perception tends to be antisocial; rarely "well-
adjusted," he cannot go along with currents and
trends. A strange bond often exists among anti-
social types in their power to see environments
as they really are. This need to interface, to con-
front environments with a certain antisocial power,
is manifest in the famous story, "The Emperor's
New Clothes." "Well-adjusted" courtiers, having
vested interests, saw the Emperor as beautifully
appointed. The "antisocial" brat, unaccustomed to
the old environment, clearly saw that the Emperor
"ain't got nothin' on." The new environment was
clearly visible to him.

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