Marshall McLuhan

Marshall McLuhan

"We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us."
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"We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us."
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"I am resolutely opposed to all innovation, all change, but I am determined to understand what’s happening. Because I don’t choose just to sit and let the juggernaut roll over me. Many people seem to think that if you talk about something recent, you’re in favor of it. The exact opposite is true in my case. Anything I talk about is almost certainly something I’m resolutely against. And it seems to me the best way to oppose it is to understand it. And then you know where to turn off the buttons."
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"First we build the tools, then they build us."
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"Our technology forces us to live mythically"
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"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools!"
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"We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror."
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"Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities."
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"Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance."
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"The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man."
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"Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either."
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"Money is a poor man's credit card."
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"Affluence creates poverty."
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"Money is just the poor man's credit card."
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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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"It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame."
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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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"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."
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"Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century."
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"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."
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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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