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Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.


Marshall McLuhan


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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.


Marshall McLuhan


#arts #becomes #collective #direction #increasingly

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.


Marshall McLuhan


#any #consequences #each #extension #into

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.


Marshall McLuhan


#anyone #between #distinction #education #either

Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.


Marshall McLuhan


#aims #among #aspirations #collective #collective consciousness

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'


Marshall McLuhan


#again #age #automation #characteristics #every

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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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


#administrator #big #bureaucratic #feel #him

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


Marshall McLuhan


#mystery #occupies #role #same #space