A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Radio created Hitler as a delinquent Peter Pan, charged with cosmic emanation. Would not a high degree of awareness of these media effects (e.g. radio in Nigeria or in any tribal territory) enable us to set up social therapies and immunizing programs exactly comparable to medical action in the face of an endemic disease?
To Pierre Elliott Trudeau, June 3, 1968, in Letters of Marshall McLuhan, p 353
Year: 1968
↪ Also at #3746, #4538, #4669
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