A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

… Modern man, philosophically conditioned to sensation and its twin, action, is automatically manifesting the fruits of that philosophy in a multitude of ways. Fanatically wedded to matter, he is giving an enormous inductive demonstration of the fact that matter has an appetite not for form as BETTER but for form as OTHER. The constituted of created being guarantees modern man that in seeking sensation and thrills, ALL his acts will uniformly possess a character of accelerated imbecility…
WYNDHAM LEWIS: LEMUEL IN LILLIPUT, Studies in Honor of St. Thomas Aquinas: Key Thinkers and Modern Thought, Saint Louis University, 1944, Vol. 2, pp.58-72
Year: 1944
Chapter: Wake Them Up!
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