A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

By the way, one of the big parts of the loss of identity is nostalgia. And so there are revivals on all hands, in every phase of life today, revivals of clothing, of dances, of music, of shows, of everything. We live by the revival. It tells us who we are or were.
“Violence as a Quest for Identity” (1977), in Understanding Me (2003), p 269
Year: 1977
↪ Also at #530, #3679, #6524
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