Today Quotes by Marshall McLuhan

14 Today quotes by Marshall McLuhan

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Marshall McLuhan’s lens on today zooms in on how media shape our immediate experience. In this fourteen‑quote set, his analytical style offers a quick yet thought‑provoking peek at the cultural currents of the moment.

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Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today.

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

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Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new…

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Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.

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Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing…

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Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.

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The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action.

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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,…

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Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

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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…

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Today's child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but…

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Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower…

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Today, the mass audience (the successor to the "public") can be used as a creative, participating force. It is, instead, merely given…

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Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric…

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