A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Lewis saw that years ago. His "America and Cosmic Man" was an H-bomb let off in the desert. Impact nil. We resent or ignore such intellectual bombs. We prefer to compose human beings into bombs and explode political and social entities. Much more fun. Lewis clears the air of fug. We want to get rid of people entirely.
Letter to Ezra Pound, June 22, 1951, in Letters of Marshall McLuhan, 1987, p 227
Year: 1951
Chapter: Lewis, Wyndham
Compiled by William Kuhns
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