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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
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Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.
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There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
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Nature
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The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
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The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
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The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.
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Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
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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.
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Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.
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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.
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American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
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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.
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We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us.
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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.
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