“The more specialized an academic became, in McLuhan's view, the more desperately he clung to his expertise and the less he wanted to understand others or wanted others to understand him. Eventually McLuhan concluded, for these and other reasons, that ‘all ignorance is motivated.’ Most people simply do not want to expand their awareness.”
Philip Marchand
Marshall McLuhan: the Medium and the Messenger (1989), p 126
Year: 1989
Chapters:
Ignorance | Specialism
↪ Also at #6478
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan