A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

No college, business or city is run by human persons anymore. I have yet to meet someone who knows what they are doing let alone why .... Abdication of the human motive is now plain. How to tackle the situation of zombie and sleepwalkers. You can't argue, they agree and move on. There is no more disagreement. We are, like Hitler, "somnambulists" – sleepwalkers
Letter to Ezra Pound, July 30, 1948, in Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987) p 198
Year: 1948
Chapter: Sleepwalkers
Compiled by William Kuhns
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