A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

I must move through this pain-wracked transitional era as a scientist would move through a world of disease; once a surgeon becomes personally involved and disturbed about the condition of his patient, he loses the power to help that patient.
Playboy Interview, 1969, in Essential McLuhan (1997, UK edition), p 267
Year: 1969
Compiled by William Kuhns
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