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Marshall McLuhan

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Marshall McLuhan
Age: 69 †
Born: 1911
Born: July 21
Died: 1980
Died: December 31
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Sociologist
University Teacher
Writer
Edmonton
Alberta
Herbert Marshall McLuhan
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The bible belt is oral territory and therefore despised by the literati.
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Some of my fellow academics are very hostile, but I sympathize with them. They've been asleep for 500 years and they don't like anybody who comes along and stirs them up.
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A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space.
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My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.
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As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art.
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Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth.
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There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends.
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Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can no longer build serially, block-by-block, step-by-step, because instant communication insures that all factors of the environment and of experience co-exist in a state of active interplay.
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A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.
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I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.
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Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.
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The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
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To say that the camera cannot lie is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name.
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