To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name.
Marshall McluhanRead
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.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote highlights how outdated methods and ideas can lead to anxiety in a rapidly changing world.
Marshall McLuhan's quote emphasizes that the anxiety prevalent in modern society largely stems from an inability to adapt to contemporary challenges using outdated methods and thinking. It suggests that to effectively navigate the complexities of today, one must embrace new tools and concepts rather than relying on those from the past, which may no longer be effective or relevant.
Themes
AnxietyChangeToolsConceptsAdaptation
In practice
Example use cases
In a lecture about technology's impact on society, one could use this quote to illustrate the need for innovation.
More from Marshall Mcluhan
All quotes βA point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
Marshall McluhanRead
In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm is a sort of lab for isolating dangerous viruses.
Marshall McluhanRead
The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.
Marshall McluhanRead
Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.
Marshall McluhanRead
The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.
Marshall McluhanRead
Similar quotes
their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals.
Mark HelprinRead
We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.
Dorothy DayRead
Afghan people are just so tired of war.
Khaled HosseiniRead
Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain't this and that at all?
Jack KerouacRead
See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.
Milton FriedmanRead
To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.
Phillips BrooksRead