A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

We’re going to lovingly and with the utmost regard to archeology and history, we’re going to reconstruct every phase of this planet as it was originally. It’s going to take a lot of money from the foundations, I’m afraid, in the next… (Audience laughter) But the whole planet is going to be restored to a sort of Garden of Eden status. The climate will be adjusted to what it properly was at this or that time, and all kinds of artistic developments are to be programmed. It also points to the fact that one of the strange developments is that the human environment itself can be dealt with as an art form.
Videorecorded lecture, “Joyce and T(hunder)elevision”, 1966, transcript, p 6
Year: 1966
Chapter: Planet, Nature
Compiled by William Kuhns
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