Well, I think that we live in post-history in the sense that all pasts that ever were are now present to our consciousness and that all the futures that will be are here now. In that sense we are post-history and timeless. Instant awareness of all the varieties of human expression reconstitutes the mythic type of the consciousness, of once-upon-a-time-ness, which means all-time, out of time. Now, in our electronic environment – information environment – everything that ever happened is out there now, and is retrievable now. All the events, all the happenings are out in our electronic world simultaneously; this gives them an archetypal, unconscious character.
Questions and Answers with Marshall McLuhan." Take One Magazine. 1966. Page 10
Year: 1966
Compiled by William Kuhns
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