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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
Herbert Marshall McLuhan
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The mother tongue is propaganda.
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Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force.
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The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
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Invention is the mother of necessities.
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The ignorance of how to use knowledge stockpiles exponentially.
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Fish did not discover water.
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The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged a fragmenting process, a process of specialism and detachment. Electric technology fosters and encourages unification and involvement.
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Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very weak identity.
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Jokes are grievances.
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Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.
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Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.
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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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Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.
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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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Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes.
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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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The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action.
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The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
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