“Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction.”
“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.”
Marshall McLuhan
“Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.”
Marshall McLuhan
“Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.”
Marshall McLuhan
“Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.”
Marshall McLuhan
“Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools!”
Marshall McLuhan