Quote by Marshall McLuhan
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the li

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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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

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Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a persons car is the only place where he can be alone and think. – Marshall McLuhan

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