“For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not recognized as such, and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes in torture, suicide, or murder.”
Marshall McLuhan
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“The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.”
Marshall McLuhan
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“The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media–movies, Telstar, flight–far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now bring to bear. Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world’s a sage.”
Marshall McLuhan
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“Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either.”
Marshall McLuhan
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“Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.”
Marshall McLuhan
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“The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.”
Marshall McLuhan
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“Current illusion is that science has abolished all natural laws.”
Marshall McLuhan
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“Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation.”
Marshall McLuhan
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“It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.”
Marshall Mcluhan
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“The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.”
Marshall Mcluhan
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“Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.”
Marshall Mcluhan
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“Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.”
Marshall Mcluhan
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“It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.”
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“A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.”
Marshall Mcluhan
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“Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.”
Marshall Mcluhan
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“The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete.”
Marshall Mcluhan
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“The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.”
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“Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.”
Marshall Mcluhan
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“A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.”
Marshall Mcluhan
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“Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.”
Marshall Mcluhan
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