#s

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#crew #earth #passengers #spaceship #spaceship earth

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#everybody #experience #experiences #far #influences

Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#antipathy #contempt #hate #love #true

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#arts #becomes #collective #direction #increasingly

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#any #consequences #each #extension #into

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#anyone #between #distinction #education #either

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

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

#aims #among #aspirations #collective #collective consciousness

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

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#everything #i #necessarily #say