An administrator in a burea... by Marshall McLuhan, a Canadian Sociologist

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“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.”

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Name: Marshall McLuhan

Nationality: Canadian

Date of Birth: Jul 21, 1911

Date of Death: Dec 31, 1980

Profession: Sociologist

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