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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
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Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.
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The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these forms, he must put them on.
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The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral) cultures.
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When people become too intense, too serious, they will have trouble in relating to any sort of social game or norm. Perhaps this is why jokes are so important. On one hand they tell us about where the problems and grievances are, and, at the same time, they provide the means of enduring these grievances by laughing at the problems.
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If people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artists?
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It has always been the artist who realizes that the future is the present and uses his work to prepare the grounds for it
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All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
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The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.
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Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.
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One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.
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Current illusion is that science has abolished all natural laws.
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The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.
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There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of sensation.
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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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All advertising advertises advertising.
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