Marshall McLuhan Quotes - Page 2

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• Time’ has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village... a simultaneous happening

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  Space, Village, Simultaneous

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.

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  Mom, Baby, Thinking

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• The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.

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  Intelligent, Technology, Light

  Marshall McLuhan (1969). “Counter blast [by] Marshall McLuhan”

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• The tribalizing power of the new electronic media, the way in which they return to us to the unified fields of the old oral cultures, to tribal cohesion and pre-individualist patterns of thought, is little understood. Tribalism is the sense of the deep bond of family, the closed society as the norm of community.

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  Media, Community, Culture

  Marshall McLuhan, Michel Moos (2014). “Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication”, p.124, Routledge

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• As a rule, I always look for what others ignore.

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  Looks

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• In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.

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  Television, Vanishing, Wraps

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

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  Life, Attitude, Views

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.246, University of Toronto Press

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• Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and quiet but it does mean huge involvement in everybody else's affairs.

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  Mean, Doe, Village

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• There ain't no grammatical errors in a non-literate society.

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  Errors

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• Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time.

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  People, Alive

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• 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.

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  Technology, Media, Messages

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• "Work" does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or thinker of today. Where the whole man is involved there is no work.

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  Men, Doe, Hunters

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.

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  Investing, Ifs

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• One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.

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  Inspirational, Media, Information

  Herbert Marshall Mcluhan (2010). “Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews”, p.135, McClelland & Stewart

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• the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions

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  People, Sanity, Proof

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• Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's problems.

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  Yesterday, Answers, Today

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

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  Trying, Racist, Firsts

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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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  Understanding, Influence, Behavior

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• I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

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  Agreement, Cynicism, Favourite

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• In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.

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  Men, Land, Doe

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• We go forward looking in the rearview mirror.

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  Mirrors, Rearview Mirror

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• The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop.

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  Technology, Men, Hula

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• I've always been careful never to predict anything that had not already happened.

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  Careful, Happened

  Herbert Marshall Mcluhan (2010). “Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews”, p.172, McClelland & Stewart

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• All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.

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  Identity, Quests, Violence

  "The Education of Mike McManus" (TV Ontario), December 28, 1977.

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• The ordinary person senses the greatness of the odds against him even without thought or analysis, and he adapts his attitudes unconsciously. A huge passivity has settled on industrial society. For people carried about in mechanical vehicles, earning their living by waiting on machines, listening much of the waking day to canned music, watching packaged movie entertainment and capsulated news, for such people it would require an exceptional degree of awareness and an especial heroism of effort to be anything but supine consumers of processed goods.

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  Attitude, Greatness, Odds

  "The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man" by Marshall McLuhan, (p. 21), 1951.

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