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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
Canadian Sociologist
Born: Jul 21, 1911
Died: Dec 31, 1980
Age First Man Our Technology World
Related authors: Emile Durkheim Georg Simmel Ivan Illich Jean Baudrillard Matthew Desmond Pierre Bourdieu Talcott Parsons Zygmunt Bauman
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. Marshall McLuhan
Politics Happy Will Politician Too Favor Abdicate More Only Could He Powerful Because His Replaced Than Much Eventually Ever Image Imagery
We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us. Marshall McLuhan
Become Tools Our Shape Behold Then Us
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say. Marshall McLuhan
Everything Say Agree Necessarily
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. Marshall McLuhan
Dangerous Luxury Understanding Insight Point Point Of View View
We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror. Marshall McLuhan
Future Mirror Drive Our Only Rearview Rearview Mirror Using
Art is anything you can get away with. Marshall McLuhan
Art You Get Anything Away
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. Marshall McLuhan
Today Club Market Tyrant Ways Rules He Comfort Shepherds His Fist Disguised Researcher Utility Flock
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either. Marshall McLuhan
Education Entertainment First Distinction Tries About Between Know Make First Thing The First Thing Anyone Either Who Thing
All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. Marshall McLuhan
Values Our Our Lives Arbitrary Perceptions Invest Exist Artificial Media Lives
The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology. Marshall McLuhan
Technology Communication Result Consequences Medium Our Say Scale Ourselves Introduced Merely New Message Affairs New Technology Personal Any Social Each Extension
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. Marshall McLuhan
Art Culture Old Beginning Distant System Tell Significant Most Always Happen Warning Early
As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes. Marshall McLuhan
World Valuable Collective Own Unity Increasingly Our Insight Rather Direction Purposes Most Becomes Real Affair Provide Than Modern Arts Modern World Social Means Techniques Technological
We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us. Marshall McLuhan
Tools Our Shape Afterwards Us
The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf. Marshall McLuhan
Singing Wolf Hood Eaten Objection Red Commercials Modern Being Little Riding
Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it. Marshall McLuhan
Think Spells Backward About Diaper
An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him. Marshall McLuhan
Man World Big Administrator Touch Inspires Abstraction Feel Merging Him Terror Real His Person Real Person Bureaucratic Who Things
The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village. Marshall McLuhan
Technology World Independence New Global Global Village Electronic Village Image
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. Marshall McLuhan
You Live Living State More Always Overload Effects Than Information Electric Cope
In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. Marshall McLuhan
Age Ourselves See More More And More Toward Being Form Information Moving Translated Electronic Extension Technological Consciousness
Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials. Marshall McLuhan
Writing Care Thought Prominent Magazine Composition More Features Go Than Any Newspaper Far Ad
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. Marshall McLuhan
Art Culture Old Beginning Think Distant System Tell Significant Most Dew Always Line Happen Warning Early
Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love. Marshall McLuhan
Love True Love Hate True Contempt Accompany Antipathy Views
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man. Marshall McLuhan
Man Car Become Aggressive Protective Shell Suburban Urban
Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance. Marshall McLuhan
Environmental World Abundance Advertising
Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. Marshall McLuhan
Schizophrenia May Literacy Necessary Consequence
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age. Marshall McLuhan
Age Youth Voting License More Driver Importance Attributes Arriving Than American Much
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