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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An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.


— Marshall McLuhan


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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.


— Marshall McLuhan


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It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.


— Marshall McLuhan


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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.


— Marshall McLuhan


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The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.


— Marshall McLuhan


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The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.


— Marshall McLuhan


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The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.


— Marshall McLuhan


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Affluence creates poverty.


— Marshall McLuhan


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A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.


— Marshall McLuhan


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In the years after his death he would continue to be a controversial figure in academic circles. With the arrival of the internet however there was renewed interest in his work and perspective.