“[McLuhan] good-naturedly blamed Plato for writing down Socrates… — Anonymous New Yorker staffer, reporting on a speech McLuhan gave at Spencer Memorial Church in Brooklyn Heights, New York in early May 1965; this passage appeared in “Toast of the Town” in The New Yorker, May 15, 1965, p 44

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“[McLuhan] good-naturedly blamed Plato for writing down Socrates' dialogues and thus inaugurating ‘codified culture’…"

Anonymous New Yorker staffer, reporting on a speech McLuhan gave at Spencer Memorial Church in Brooklyn Heights, New York in early May 1965; this passage appeared in “Toast of the Town” in The New Yorker, May 15, 1965, p 44

Quote #2253

Year: 1965

Chapter: Eye vs Ear