Marshall McLuhan Quotes - Page 2

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• The ordinary person senses the greatness of the odds against him even without thought or analysis, and he adapts his attitudes unconsciously. A huge passivity has settled on industrial society. For people carried about in mechanical vehicles, earning their living by waiting on machines, listening much of the waking day to canned music, watching packaged movie entertainment and capsulated news, for such people it would require an exceptional degree of awareness and an especial heroism of effort to be anything but supine consumers of processed goods.

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  Attitude, Greatness, Odds

  "The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man" by Marshall McLuhan, (p. 21), 1951.

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• In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.

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  Men, Land, Doe

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• The tribalizing power of the new electronic media, the way in which they return to us to the unified fields of the old oral cultures, to tribal cohesion and pre-individualist patterns of thought, is little understood. Tribalism is the sense of the deep bond of family, the closed society as the norm of community.

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  Media, Community, Culture

  Marshall McLuhan, Michel Moos (2014). “Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication”, p.124, Routledge

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• Time’ has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village... a simultaneous happening

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  Space, Village, Simultaneous

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.

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  Confused, Worship, Sincerity

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• Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.

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  Mom, Baby, Thinking

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• 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 mere hula-hoop.

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  Technology, Men, Hula

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• Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment.

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  Environment, Boundaries

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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 of utility and comfort.

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  Business, Hands, Tyrants

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• What goes on inside the school is an interruption of education.

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  School, Goes On, Interruptions

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• Technology is that which separates us from our environment.

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  Science, Technology, Environment

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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, painter, or thinker of today. Where the whole man is involved there is no work.

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  Men, Doe, Hunters

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Education is civil defence against media fallout.

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  Education, Media, Fallouts

  Marshall McLuhan (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy”, p.387, University of Toronto Press

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• 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 central nervous system.

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  Book, Eye, Media

  Marshall McLuhan, Bruce R. Powers (1989). “The global village: transformations in world life and media in the 21st century”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.

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  Freedom, School, Differences

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.244, University of Toronto Press

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• What is very little understood about the electronic age is that it angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software.

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  Men, Age, Littles

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• Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.

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  Innovation, Identity, Quests

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• the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions

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  People, Sanity, Proof

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• If it works, it's obsolete.

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  Hard Work, Creativity, Ideas

  Marshall McLuhan (2010). “The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion and Media”, p.139, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.

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  Meaningful, Spiritual, Identity

  "Violence in the media". Canadian Forum, Volume 56, (p. 9), 1976.

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• Those conspiracies that are too incredible to be believed, are by the same right, those which most often succeed.

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  Evil, Denial, Succeed

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• One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.

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  Inspirational, Media, Information

  Herbert Marshall Mcluhan (2010). “Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews”, p.135, McClelland & Stewart

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• Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.

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  Men, Play, Leisure

  Marshall McLuhan (2014). “Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication”, p.125, Routledge

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• Invention is the mother of necessities.

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  Mother, Business, Invention

  Marshall McLuhan (2015). “Culture Is Our Business”, p.184, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The answers are always inside the problem, not outside.

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  Science, Answers, Problem

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