A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Humour

Enhances dis-ease – grievance
Obsolesces the everyday ground
Retrieves decorum and equilibrium
Flips abrasion into catharsis
From attachment to a letter to Melvin Kranzberg Editor of The Journal of Culture and Technology, August 22, 1975, p 2
Quote #3338
Year: 1975
Chapter: Laws of Media
Compiled by William Kuhns
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