Yes, everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light, it's called being masked man, by the way, one of the big marks of the loss of identity is nostalgia and so, revivals on all hands in every phase of life today, revivals of clothing, of dances, of music, of shows, of everything. We live by the revival, it tells us who we are or where.
Mike McManus television interview, TVO, 1977, “Violence as a Quest for Identity”, transcript 04:42 ff
Year: 1977
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan