Marshall McLuhan

Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#country #how #identity #knows #live

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 #beginning #culture #distant #early

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.' ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#again #age #automation #characteristics #every

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

#because #could #eventually #ever #favor

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#artificial #exist #invest #lives #media

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

— Marshall McLuhan

#20th century #advertising #art form #century #form

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#publication

We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#behold #our #shape #then #tools

Affluence creates poverty. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#creates #poverty

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

#blueprints #commercial #essentially #every #evoking