One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion or "closing" of the TV… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The greatest propaganda in the world is our mother tongue, that is what we learn as children, and which we learn unconsciously.… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“As the Western world has invested every aspect of its waking life with visual order, with procedures and spaces that are uniform,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“Someone asked me if I really believed there was life after death. I replied: Do you really believe there is any life… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Such is the content of the mental life of the Hemingway hero and the good guy in general. Every day he gets… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“The constant broadcast and reception of ghostly images via radio and television, according to this notion, had weakened the sense, particularly among youth, of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
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… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti-environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral)… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
