A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Our thinking is all done still in the old nineteenth-century world because everyone always lives in the world just behind – the one they can see.
“Television in a New Light” in The Meaning of Commercial Television, Ed. Stanley T. Donner, 1966, p 89
Quote #6013
Year: 1966
Chapter: Rear View Mirror
Compiled by William Kuhns
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