A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

In terms of eye and ear, both are completely right, but when one begins making value judgments about the other — as Bergson did — the trouble begins. Bergson simply went over to the ear side of things and denounced the visual order as the enemy of all Being.
“Communication Media: Makers of the Modern World” (1959), in The Medium and the Light (1999), p 44
Year: 1959
↪ Also at #7265, #7274
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