There is no difference of result between our entertainment industry and the Asian or Soviet brainwashing programs. Our revulsion is irrationally channeled towards the deliberate intention of reshaping consciousness because we have had centuries to devise more subtle and complex ways of achieving the same end… The Soviet and Asian areas having so little pre-electronic technology feel no inhibitions about following the logic of the electronic and the instantaneous.
“The Subliminal Projection Project,” 1957, p 196
Year: 1957
Chapter:
Propaganda
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan