America is the only country ever founded on the printed word. – Marshall McLuhan
The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers. – Marshall McLuhan

America is the only country ever founded on the printed word. – Marshall McLuhan
The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers. – Marshall McLuhan
Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be. – Marshall McLuhan
Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field. – James Baldwin