Marshall McLuhan

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

— Marshall McLuhan

#everybody #except #first #immortality #mistaken

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

#administrator #big #bureaucratic #feel #him

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#mystery #occupies #role #same #space

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

— Marshall McLuhan

#each #frame #framework #just #new

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. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#anxiety #concepts #great #job #our

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#commercials #eaten #hood #little #modern

The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#global #global village #image #independence #new

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. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#environment #first #go #grasp #his

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