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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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One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.
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Affluence creates poverty.
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Innovation for holders of conventional wisdom is not novelty but annihilation.
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Such is the content of the mental life of the Hemingway hero and the good guy in general. Every day he gets beaten into a servile pulp by his own mechanical reflexes, which are constantly busy registering and reacting to the violent stimuli which his big, noisy, kinesthetic environment has provided for his unreflective reception.
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When things come at you very fast, naturally you lose touch with yourself.
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Poetry and the arts can’t exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical. The vital tensions and nutritive action of ideogram remain inaccessible to this state of mind.
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Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.
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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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It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
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Logos is the formal cause of the kosmos and all things, responsible for their nature and configuration.
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Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.
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People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.
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All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
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Anything that's popular is a rear-view image.
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Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
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Language is a form of organized stutter.
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Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater ease and speed and ever less involvement.
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