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Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It’s called being mass man Picture Quote #1

The literate man is a sucker for propaganda... You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas Picture Quote #1

Native societies did not think of themselves as being in the world as occupants but considered that their rituals created the world and keep it operational Picture Quote #1

The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these forms, he must put them on Picture Quote #1

The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention Picture Quote #1

When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result Picture Quote #1

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work

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Don't look back you're not going that way

When we put our central nervous system outside us we returned to the primal nomadic state Picture Quote #1

The car has become... An article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete Picture Quote #1

Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures of brainwashing Picture Quote #1

The school system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the rugged individual. It is, indeed, the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing Picture Quote #1

For me any of the little gestures I make are all tentative probes. That’s why I feel free to make them sound as outrageous or extreme as possible. Until you make it extreme, the probe is not very efficient Picture Quote #1

I am not a culture critic because I am not in any way interested in classifying cultural forms. I am a metaphysician, interested in the life of the forms and their surprising modalities. That is why I have no interest in the academic world Picture Quote #1

A girl doesn't need anyone who doesn't need her

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When I first saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew

My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant Picture Quote #1

The business of art is no longer the communication of thoughts or feelings which are to be conceptually ordered, but a direct participation in an experience. The whole tendency of modern communication... Is towards participation in a process, rather than apprehension of concepts Picture Quote #1

Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction Picture Quote #1

But the fury for change is in the form and not the message of the new media Picture Quote #1

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Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It’s called being mass man (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) The literate man is a sucker for propaganda... You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) Native societies did not think of themselves as being in the world as occupants but considered that their rituals created the world and keep it operational (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these forms, he must put them on (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) When we put our central nervous system outside us we returned to the primal nomadic state (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) The car has become... An article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures of brainwashing (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) The school system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the rugged individual. It is, indeed, the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) For me any of the little gestures I make are all tentative probes. That’s why I feel free to make them sound as outrageous or extreme as possible. Until you make it extreme, the probe is not very efficient (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) I am not a culture critic because I am not in any way interested in classifying cultural forms. I am a metaphysician, interested in the life of the forms and their surprising modalities. That is why I have no interest in the academic world (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) The business of art is no longer the communication of thoughts or feelings which are to be conceptually ordered, but a direct participation in an experience. The whole tendency of modern communication... Is towards participation in a process, rather than apprehension of concepts (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) But the fury for change is in the form and not the message of the new media (Marshall McLuhan Quotes)

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