There are very many reasons why most people prefer to live in an age just behind them. It's safer. To live right on the shooting line, right on the frontier of change and so on is terrifying.
The New Majority,” Interview with Ed Fitzgerald, CBC-TV, (1970), transcript p 12; also “The global theatre”, in Ekistics 190 (Sept 1971), p 182
Year: 1970
Chapter:
Rear View Mirror
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan