Canadian - Sociologist | July 21, 1911 - December 31, 1980
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
Marshall McLuhan
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The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
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Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.
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Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.
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Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
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Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
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Jokes are grievances.
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Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.
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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
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Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.
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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.
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The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
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