The same thing is happening today with the snatching of conventional goals and patterns from our midst by the sudden lurch from a mechanical to an electric world. The young are deprived of both identity and goals. They react in a kind of narcolepsy or apathetic somnambulism. They regard all aid as unwarranted interference. They submerge in their "yellow submarine”
“Off-Spins and In-Spins”, in Take today: the executive as dropout, p 259
Chapter:
Wake Them Up!
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan