A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

The present has become so rich and so complex and terrifying that people do all they can to hide from it.
“Opening lecture, Fordham University” (1967), in Understanding Me (2003), p 141
Quote #5685
Year: 1967
Chapter: Present [The]
↪ Also at #5671
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