Democracy as a by-product of certain technologies…. Is not something I would take very seriously. But democracy as it belongs very profoundly with Christianity is something I take very seriously, indeed. The Christian concept of the mystical body – all men are the members of the body of Christ – this becomes technologically a fact under electric conditions.
Interview with Gerald E. Stearn, McLuhan: Hot and Cool, 1967. p. 261.
Year: 1967
Chapter:
Democracy
↪ Also at #1443
Compiled by William Kuhns
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