A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

My own studies of the effects of technology on human psyche and society have inclined people to regard me as the enemy of the things I describe. I feel a bit like the man who turns in a fire alarm only to be charged with arson. I have tried to avoid making personal value judgments about these processes since they seem far too important and too large in scope to deserve a merely private opinion.
Letter to Eric Havelock, May, 1970, in Letters (1987), p 406
Year: 1970
Compiled by William Kuhns
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