One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There´s always more than you can cope with. Now the young have devised a strategy for dealing with this quite apart from just inattention. They have devised a much more potent strategy of myth-making.
“The Marfleet Lectures” March 16-17 (1967); reprinted in Understanding Me (2003), p 135
Year: 1967
Chapter:
Ignorance
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan