The media have substituted themselves for the older world. Marshall McLuhan More Quotes by Marshall McLuhan More Quotes From Marshall McLuhan We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future. Marshall McLuhan mirrors change views Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval. Marshall McLuhan space silence light The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of spoken words. So language was the last art to accept the visual logic of Gutenberg technology, and the first to rebound in the electric age. Marshall McLuhan technology space art The business of art is no longer the communication of thoughts or feelings which are to be conceptually ordered, but a direct participation in an experience. The whole tendency of modern communication...is towards participation in a process, rather than apprehension of concepts. Marshall McLuhan communication feelings art Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons. Marshall McLuhan weapons identity war Art at its most significant is 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 dew culture art In large measure, writing is the spatialization of thought. Marshall McLuhan media writing Education, which should be helping youth to understand and adapt to their revolutionary new environments, is instead being used merely as an instrument of cultural aggression. Marshall McLuhan youth revolutionary helping The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound. Marshall McLuhan car technology science We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror. Marshall McLuhan future human-nature mirrors The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers. Marshall McLuhan humorous blow men American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age. Marshall McLuhan voting-age political reality The wheel is an extension of the foot, the book is an extension of the eye, clothing an extension of the skin, electric circuitry an extension of the central nervous system. Marshall McLuhan media eye book The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends. Marshall McLuhan media perception artist Our technology forces us to live mythically Marshall McLuhan force technology The mother tongue is propaganda. Marshall McLuhan propaganda tongue mother To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine. Marshall McLuhan machines skins men First we build the tools, then they build us. Marshall McLuhan tools firsts Electronic man has no physical body. Marshall McLuhan physical-body body men In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. Marshall McLuhan technology birthday moving
