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Category: Marshall McLuhan

3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person’s car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan

The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.

3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan

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.

3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan

Art is anything you can get away with.

3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan

Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.

3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan

Money is just the poor man’s credit card.

3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan

We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.

3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either.

3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan

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

3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan

Money is a poor man’s credit card.

3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver’s license age than at voting age.

3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America – not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist’s couch.

3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of ‘do it yourself.’

3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan

A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.

3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

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