A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Humor is a profound area of research and social science because it shifts around with the shifting area of sensitivity and grievance….Slang is a spontaneous and natural behavior which records quite deep motivation. Slang, the grievance joke, and the joke without a story line all belong to the electric world, where everything happens at once.
“Television in a New Light” in The Meaning of Commercial Television (1966), p 90 [confirm book-source and year]
Year: 1966
Chapters: Language | Playfulness
↪ Also at #3215
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