A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

The old king had a role, not a job. He was an inclusive centre-without-a-margin. The new consciousness like the new prince is a harassed executive, exercising a job, applying knowledge to problems, and having only momentary contacts with his marginal subjects, who are all ambitious rival segments anyway.
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man, (1962), p 249
Year: 1962
Chapter: Roles
Compiled by William Kuhns
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