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Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.

~Marshall Mcluhan

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It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

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Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

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One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.

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Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.

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Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.

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Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

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The medium is the message.

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Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.

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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Sociologist

Born: July 21st, 1911

Died: December 31st, 1980

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