A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

[Referring to the trial of William L. Calley for slaughter of 22 people in a Vietnamese village] When the audience of a trial includes an entire population or a nation, it is the public itself that appears as the criminal, and the culprit who appears as hero. May this not have happened with the trial and execution of Charles I?
“Roles Masks, and Performances,” 1971, p 527
Year: 1971
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