At the speed of light, the inner trip is all that's left. Young people prefer Zen Buddhism to our Western form of spirituality. They want to be immersed in things and lose the individual self, which is a by-product of the alphabet and the visual world that flows from it.
“Religion and Youth: Second Conversation with Pierre Babin” (1977), in The Medium and the Light, 1999, p 94
Year: 1977
Chapter:
Youth
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan