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Today, the mass audience (the successor to the 'public') can be used as a creative, participating force. It is, instead, merely given packages...
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Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up—that is our new ...
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The school system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the rugged individual. It is, indeed, the homogenizing hopper into which we to...
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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image wi...
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I am a Christian according to my conscience in belief, ... in purpose and wish;Mnot of course by the orthodox standard. But I am content, and ...
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'Money talks' because money is a metaphor, a transfer, and a bridge. Like words and language, money is a storehouse of communally achieved wor...
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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
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Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.
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It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.
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For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not recognized as such, and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes in torture, suicide, or murder.
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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
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The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium -- that is, of any extension of ourselves -- result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.
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A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.
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The school system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the rugged individual. It is, indeed, the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.
By Marshall McLuhan
Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.
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The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete.
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The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.
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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.
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There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.
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The car has become an item of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.
By Marshall McLuhan