A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Even if we should wish to recover that older world we can do so only by an intensive study of the ways in which the media have swallowed it. And no matter how many walls have fallen, the citadel of individual consciousness has not fallen nor is it likely to fall. For it is not accessible to the mass media.
“Educational Effects of the Mass Media of Communication”, in Teachers College Record 1956, Vol. 57, No. 6, p 403
Year: 1956
↪ Also at #2886, #2899, #4439, #4466
Compiled by William Kuhns
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