A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

MANSARAM - Well sir, you know about this East/West Happening?
MCLUHAN - Oh, yeah! Well, the simple fact of the matter is the whole world is an East/West happening, and while the Western world is going Oriental, the Oriental world is going Western. This has been going on for a century, and so what could be a bigger East/West happening than that? See, all the Western artists have gone Oriental since Baudelaire, and all the painters, all abstract art is Oriental art.
A long- unpublished interview done in1967 by Artist P. Mansaram, much later published in the McLuhan Galaxy Blog (2014) by Alex Kuskis.
Quote #6116
Year: 1967
Chapters: Extending Consciousness | Global Village | Retribalizing | West and East
↪ Also at #2164, #2446, #7450
Source: https://mcluhangalaxy.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/an-unpublished-interview-with-marshall-mcluhan-1967-by-artist-p-mansaram/
Source: https://mcluhangalaxy.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/an-unpublished-interview-with-marshall-mcluhan-1967-by-artist-p-mansaram/
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