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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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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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Today, the mass audience (the successor to the public) can be used as a creative, participating force. It is, instead, merely given packages of passive entertainment. Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's questions.
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The medium is the message because it is the medium that shapes and controls the search and form of human associations and action.
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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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Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and quiet but it does mean huge involvement in everybody else's affairs.
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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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Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.
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Don't ask whether it is right or wrong. Instead try to find out what is going on.
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Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes.
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There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends.
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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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Those conspiracies that are too incredible to be believed, are by the same right, those which most often succeed.
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The user of the electric light - or a hammer, or a language, or a book - is the content. As such, there is a total metamorphosis of the user by the interface. It is the metamorphosis that I consider the message.
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Food for the mind is like food for the body: the inputs are never the same as the outputs.
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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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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
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The age of automation is going to be the age of do it yourself.
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The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form.
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Art is anything you can get away with.
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There is no individualism in Eastern or oral cultures.
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