A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

“Value judgments of processes such as these create huge smoke screens. Even the most irrelevant and fatuous categories can muster the appearance of plausibility. Rigidity of stance or point-of-view creates a habit of moral valuation devoid of all the intellectual satisfactions of comprehension”.
Letter to the Editor, New Society, March 1970, in Letters (1987), p 403
Year: 1970
Compiled by William Kuhns
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