… a mass society is one in which personal diversity is encourage… — Playboy interview, 1969, reprinted in Essential McLuhan (1995 edition), p 262 | The MMM

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… a mass society is one in which personal diversity is encouraged while at the same time everybody reacts and interacts simultaneously to every stimulus.

Playboy interview, 1969, reprinted in Essential McLuhan (1995 edition), p 262

Quote #532

Year: 1969

Chapters: Audience, Public, Mass | Corporate Consciousness | Future | Individual | Retribalizing | Today’s Transition

↪ Also at #537, #1401, #2403, #2908, #6169, #6891

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