The potential of any technology is always dissipated by its users involvement in its predecessors...Computer are still serving mainly to sustain precomputer effects.
Marshall McLuhanGood taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
Marshall McLuhanTo say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name.
Marshall McLuhanOur technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.
Marshall McLuhanWhen people become too intense, too serious, they will have trouble in relating to any sort of social game or norm. Perhaps this is why jokes are so important. On one hand they tell us about where the problems and grievances are, and, at the same time, they provide the means of enduring these grievances by laughing at the problems.
Marshall McLuhan