Time is still loaded with a thousand decisions and indecisions which terrify a society that has yielded so much of its autonomy to merely automatic processes and routines. The problem, therefore, is to control panic by “killing time” or by shredding it into “ragtime.” To reduce it to an imbecilic bebop point. We seek to hide it in the tight bebop moment, as the tribesman hid in the squat spatial unit.
The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man, (1951), p 85
Year: 1951
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan