The only way to recover the old world is to induce the media into vomiting it back up.
Marshall McLuhanIt is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
Marshall McLuhanIt is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.
Marshall McLuhanProfessionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.
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