A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

…the human family now exists under conditions of a “global village.” We live in a single constricted space resonant with tribal drums. So that concern with “primitive” today is as banal as nineteenth century concern with “progress” and as irrelevant to our problems.
The Gutenberg Galaxy : The Making of Typographic Man , (1962), p 31
Year: 1962
Chapter: Global Village
Compiled by William Kuhns
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