[After literacy] the whole man became fragmented man; the alphab… — “Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan: A Candid Conversation with the High Priest of Popcult and Metaphysician of Media”. By Eric Norden. Playboy Magazine, March (1969), p 59 reprinted in Essential McLuhan (1995), p 241

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[After literacy] the whole man became fragmented man; the alphabet shattered the charmed circle and resonating magic of the tribal world, exploding man into an agglomeration of specialized and psychically impoverished “individuals," or units, functioning in a world of linear time and Euclidean space.

“Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan: A Candid Conversation with the High Priest of Popcult and Metaphysician of Media”. By Eric Norden. Playboy Magazine, March (1969), p 59 reprinted in Essential McLuhan (1995), p 241

Quote #3532

Year: 1969

Chapter: Literacy