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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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There is no individualism in Eastern or oral cultures.
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In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm is a sort of lab for isolating dangerous viruses.
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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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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 movie stars and matinee idols are put into the public domain by photography. They become dreams that money can buy. They can be bought and thumbed more easily than public prostitutes.
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Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time.
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Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.
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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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Art is anything you can get away with.
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Photography turns people into things and their image into a mass consumer product.
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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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Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion.
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The new media are not ways of relating to us the 'real' world they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the old world at will.
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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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Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.
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The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
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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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The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
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Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones
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Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction.
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