A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

However, I never make value judgments, I make probes, I poke away, here and there, to see what I can find, as I say “my own values are literary, my own values are entirely on the side of civilization”. On, the other hand I don't live in that kind of a world and so, I do probe the world I live in and it happens to be an auditory Echo Land and a full of hippies and hippies and beetles, who crawled out from under things, like Kafka´s bug in the metamorphosis.
“[Marshall McLuhan] Address to The Book and Author Luncheon at New York City Shoreham Hotel”, December 7th, (1969), retrieved from McLuhan’s Wake DVD extras transcript: 18:52
Year: 1969
Compiled by William Kuhns
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