A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

I think that we live in post-history in the sense that all pasts that ever were are now present to our consciousness and that all the futures that will be are here now. In that sense we are post-history and timeless. Instant awareness of all the varieties of human expression reconstitutes the mythic type of the consciousness, of once-upon-a-time-ness, which means all-time, out of time
“Electric Consciousness and the Church” (I970), in The Medium and the Light (1997), p 88
Year: 1997
Chapters: Future | History
↪ Also at #2404, #2714, #2724
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