"Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam."
-Marshall McLuhan
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"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
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"The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar."
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"The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way."
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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"
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"In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event."
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