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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society. Lewis Mumford

War Society Drama Supreme

The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture. Lewis Mumford

Spiritual Culture Made Long Important Our Machine Run Physical Vast Long Run Environment Perhaps Material Than Contributions Less

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

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare. Marshall McLuhan

First Everybody Press Immortality Shakespeare Except Mistaken Printing Printing Press Engine

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression. Marshall McLuhan

World Political Will Action Everywhere Insatiable Criterion Both Since Discover Infallibly Western Western World Essentially Where Agencies Century Congenial Mechanical Expression Appetite Enjoyment

Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness. 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. Marshall McLuhan

Every Society Evoking Members Indifferent Ritual Occasion Provided Commercial Essentially Ascetic Social Whose Right Tone

The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty. Marshall McLuhan

Defends Everything Except Almost Almost Everything Scientist His Ignorant Specialty Right

Jokes are grievances. Marshall McLuhan

Jokes

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. Marshall McLuhan

The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns. Marshall McLuhan

Time Mark Our Our Time Imposed Revulsion Against Patterns

Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies. Marshall McLuhan

Today Eloquence Classics Classroom Nor Models Which Agencies Ad

Evictions cause job loss. Because it's such a destabilizing, stressful event, they lose their footing in the labor market. It has big impacts on people's health, especially mental health. Matthew Desmond

Health People Mental Health Cause Job Big Lose Market Impacts Mental Footing Because Loss Labor Event Stressful

A lot of us who grew up in the country, hunting and fishing, being very familiar with the woods and dirt roads, have the skill set you need to fight fire. Matthew Desmond

A community that sees so clearly its own disadvantage or its own hardships also has a harder time seeing its potential: its ability to work together to change the community and change their lives. Matthew Desmond

Work Time Change Together Hardships Own Community Ability Seeing Sees Potential Disadvantage Clearly Also Work Together Lives Harder Harder Time

Payday loans are but one of many financial techniques - from overdraft fees to student loans subsidizing for-profit colleges - specifically designed to pull money from the pockets of the poor. This problem generally goes unrecognized by policy makers. Matthew Desmond

Problem Money Financial Colleges Pockets Student Student Loans Generally Fees Policy Makers Goes Poor Many Specifically Techniques Designed Pull Loans

Home is the wellspring of personhood, where our identity takes root; where civic life begins. America is supposed to be a place where you can better yourself, your family, and your community. Matthew Desmond

Many times when we are talking about displacement, we talk about it within the frame of gentrification, which focuses on transitioning neighborhoods. But man, every city I've looked at, Milwaukee included, most evictions are right there, smack dab in ungentrifying, poor, segregated communities. Matthew Desmond

Man Every Frame Neighborhoods City About Smack Segregated Most Looked Talk Talking Within Times Which Poor Transitioning Communities Many Displacement Included Right Milwaukee

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