It is true that my “impenetrability” results from the fact that I do not use any ideas at all, but perceptions only. The untrained intellectual deals only with concepts and theories, and has little skill in the study of effects and consequences. This condition extends to the journalistic world.
Letter to the Editor of the Toronto Star, July 4 , (1978), in Letters of Marshall McLuhan ,(1987) p 540
Year: 1978
Chapter:
McLuhan on McLuhan
Compiled by William Kuhns
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