A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

But ads are carefully designed by the Madison Ave. frogmen-of-the-mind for semiconscious exposure. Their mere existence is as testimony, as well as a contribution, to the somnambulistic state of a tired metropolis.
Understanding Media (1963), MIT/Routledge, p 229
Year: 1963
↪ Also at #6417, #7370
Compiled by William Kuhns
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