A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

The nobody in real life is a person who becomes quite intractable, quite violent as a way of rediscovering "Who am I" and "How do I re-establish my image, myself in this world." Our popular forms of entertainment tend toward that direction.
Man and Media,” lecture delivered at York University, Toronto, (1979), in Understanding Me (2003), p 281
Year: 1979
Chapter: Identity
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