A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

The tribal-global village is far more divisive – full of fighting – than any nationalism ever was. Village is fission, not fusion, in depth. People leave small towns to avoid involvement. The big city lined them with its uniformity and impersonal milieu. They sought propriety and in the city, money is made by uniformity and repeatability.
The hot and Cool Interview, 1967, in Essays Media Research (1997), p 58
Year: 1967
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