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The 'expert' is the man who stays put.
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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Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
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Electronic man has no physical body.
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Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode - a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground.
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The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with complete disregard for antiseptics.
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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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The 'content' of any medium is always another medium.
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The greatest propaganda in the world is our mother tongue, that is what we learn as children, and which we learn unconsciously. That shapes our perceptions for life. That is propaganda at its most extreme form.
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Any breakdown is a breakthrough.
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North Americans have a peculiar bias. They go outside to be alone and they go home to be social.
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The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.
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