A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

No college, business or city is run by human persons anymore. I have yet to meet someone who knows what he was doing let alone why he was doing it. Universal Abdication of the human motive is now plain. How to tackle the situation? Zombies. Sleep-walkers. Can't argue with such. They agree with anything you say and go on. Mark that as the present feature. No more disagreement.
Letter to Ezra Pound, July 30, 1948, in Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987), pp 198-199
Year: 1948
Chapter: Sleepwalkers
Compiled by William Kuhns
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