Marshall McLuhan

Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#first #good #good taste #refuge #stand

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 #beginning #culture #dew #distant

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

#being #consciousness #electronic #extension #form

Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#aggression #avenue #consciousness #demand #madison

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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Money is a poor man's credit card. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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Money is just the poor man's credit card. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#beginning #end #just #meant #never

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

#cope #effects #electric #habitually #information