A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

But the ablated or outered faculty returns to plague the inventor. The outered sense or faculty must be innered by the human community in the ordinary course of perception. And when it enters the human system again, there is a large displacement of the other senses and faculties, as William Blake spent his life proclaiming in vain.
“The Electronic Age – the Age of Implosion” (1962), p 192
Year: 1962
Compiled by William Kuhns
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