In order to have a highly industrial or marketing life you have to devise very superficial relationships for people. Because otherwise you’re going to siphon off all the energies necessary to keep the market going. The Orientals are not inclined to siphon off their emotional and psychic energies in that way. They’re just not geared to that sort of living.
“Love,” in Saturday Night, February, 1967, p 28
Year: 1967
Chapter:
Sex and Love
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan