But travel has many forms and this kind of horizontal travel, on rolling stock [by train], is much more conducive to social life and reading and chat. Whereas when you go up in an airplane, you're suspended in a kind of time-zone. You're really out of space and you begin to work away at forming a destination image, or syndrome, that imprisons you in a kind of hope bubble or pattern.
“The Medium Is the Message,” TV interview with Fletcher Markle on CBC “Telescope 67,” (1967), transcript 11:02
Year: 1967
Chapter:
McLuhan on McLuhan
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan