But at the same time, print technology has homogenized man, crea… — “Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan: A Candid Conversation with the High Priest of Popcult and Metaphysician of Media.” By Eric Norden. Playboy Magazine, March (1969), p 70, reprinted in The Essential McLuhan (1995), p 259

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But at the same time, print technology has homogenized man, creating mass militarism, mass mind and mass uniformity. Print gave man private habits of individualism and a public role of absolute conformity.

“Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan: A Candid Conversation with the High Priest of Popcult and Metaphysician of Media.” By Eric Norden. Playboy Magazine, March (1969), p 70, reprinted in The Essential McLuhan (1995), p 259

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Year: 1969

Chapter: Print