My "foul language" consisted in explaining to such big names as Bob McNamara, George Ball, Dean Rusk, and many from the U.K., that they had not a single clue concerning a world in which information moved at the speed of light. They were uniformly nineteenth-century minds pretending to relate to the twentieth century.
Letter to Robert H. Eringer, May 30, 1977, In Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987) p 531
Year: 1977
Chapter:
Rear View Mirror
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan