Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left. Leasing our eyes and ears and nerves to commercial interests is like handing over the common speech to a private corporation, or like giving the earth's atmosphere to a company as a monopoly.
I don't want them to believe me, I just want them to think. - Marshall Mcluhan
I don't want them to believe me, I just want them to think.
- Marshall Mcluhan
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 Mcluhan
The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.
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 me… - Marshall Mcluhan
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 me…
People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler pe… - Marshall Mcluhan
People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler pe…
There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends. - Marshall Mcluhan
There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends.
All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. - Marshall Mcluhan
All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. - Marshall Mcluhan
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
The wheel is an extension of the foot, the book is an extension of the eye, clothing an extension of the skin, electric circuitry an extension of the… - Marshall Mcluhan
The wheel is an extension of the foot, the book is an extension of the eye, clothing an extension of the skin, electric circuitry an extension of the…
We are all robots when uncritically involved with our technologies. - Marshall Mcluhan
We are all robots when uncritically involved with our technologies.
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