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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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Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
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Technologies themselves, regardless of content, produce a hemispheric bias in the users.
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Except for light, all other media come in pairs, with one acting as the content of the other, obscuring the operation of both.
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The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form.
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Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.
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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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It's misleading to suppose there's any basic difference between education & entertainment. This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibility of looking into the matter.
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Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
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I may be wrong, but I'm never in doubt.
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Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.
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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
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The movie, by sheer speeding up of the mechanical, carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the world of creative configurations and structure.
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Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment.
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The ignorance of how to use knowledge stockpiles exponentially.
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Information and images bump against each other every day in massive quantities, and the resonance of this interfacing is like the babble of a village or tavern gossip session.
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The laws of the media, in tetrad form, bring logos and formal cause up to date to reveal analytically the structure of all human artefacts.
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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.
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Affluence creates poverty.
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Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.
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Fish did not discover water.
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