Marshall McLuhan

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#literacy #may #necessary #schizophrenia

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#been #communicate #communication #content #media

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#battlefields #brought #brutality #comfort #into

The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#advertiser #background #business #go #magic

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#become #car #man #protective #shell

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

— Marshall McLuhan

#imposed #mark #our #our time #patterns

The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#banks #data #each #exist #less

The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#man #name #never #numbing #recovers

We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#our #shape #tools #us

When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#get #graph #know #producers #public