A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

We may be approaching the time when political and executive figures may have to be recruited on the same basis as was formerly used for movie stars. Alternatively, it might be possible to transfer the Paul Newmans or the John Waynes from the entertainment sphere to the political sphere directly in order to satisfy the need of people to be reassured by images that remind them of all the people they might have been in some ideal existence.
“The President Who Was Not in Touch with the Present Getting Rid of the Electronic TAPE worm” (1974), p 1-2
Year: 1974
Chapter: Education
Compiled by William Kuhns
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