This process which began with telegraph has reached full proportions with television. Our teenagers assuming the artist outlook have rejected the consumer world. And even in business, as so popular a writer as John Kenneth Galbraith has testified, the old quarrel between art and commerce has ended in a wedding.
“Popular/Mass Culture,” Speech (1960), in Understanding Me (2003), p 15
Year: 1960
Chapter:
Today’s Transition
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan