To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name.
Marshall McluhanRead
We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
Interpretation
We often rely on our past experiences to navigate our future choices.
Marshall McLuhan's quote emphasizes the idea that our understanding of the future is heavily influenced by our past. Just as a driver uses a rearview mirror to see behind them, we use our past experiences and knowledge to inform and guide our decisions as we move forward in life. This illustrates both the limitations and insights we gain from history as we attempt to shape our future.
In practice
In a motivational speech about learning from failure, you could use this quote to emphasize the importance of past lessons.
To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name.
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
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.
The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.
Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.
The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.
It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.
People talk about grief as if it's kind of an unremittingly awful thing, and it is. It is painful, but it's a very, very interesting sort of thing to go through, and it really helps you out. At the end of the day, it gets you through because you have to reform your relationship, and you have to figure out a way of getting to the future.
And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.
Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
The only proper intoxication is conversation.
Curses of vanished elders echoed down on me; too pretty, too soft, too pale, eyes far too full of the Devil, ah, that devilish smile
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