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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The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times. – Marshall McLuhan

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Propaganda
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Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities. – Marshall McLuhan

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Society
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One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. Theres always more than you can cope with. – Marshall McLuhan

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Information
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Be polite write diplomatically even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness. – Otto von Bismarck

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Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world. – Henry A. Wallace

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War

The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war. – Rand Paul

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New terms used like, overseas contingency operation instead of the word war – that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We cant spin our way out of this threat. – Sarah Palin

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