If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a more suitable form than his nomadic ancestors achieved, then might not our current translation of our entire lives into the spiritual form of information seem to make of the entire.
Marshall McLuhanThe content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture.
Marshall McLuhanExcept for light, all other media come in pairs, with one acting as the "content" of the other, obscuring the operation of both.
Marshall McLuhanPeople hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler perceptions than ordinary people. Otherwise, why would they be screaming? Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity.
Marshall McLuhan