A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

In a simultaneous information structure such as the electronic global community, we cannot afford subliminal factors since their operation is haphazard. The simultaneous compels us to make a social order that, like a poem or painting, is totally realized in its interrelations, and in which each factor has total relevance.
“Electronic Revolution” (1959), in Understanding Me (2003), p 9
Year: 1959
Chapter: Simultaneity
Compiled by William Kuhns
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