A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Some of my fellow academics are very hostile, but I sympathize with them. They’ve been asleep for 500 years and they don’t like anybody who comes along and stirs them up.
“The Table Talk of Marshall McLuhan”, Interview with Peter C. Newman in Maclean´s magazine, June 1971, p 45
Quote #2740
Year: 1971
Chapters: Hostility to McLuhan | McLuhan on McLuhan
↪ Also at #3854
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