Perhaps now, when things happen at very high speeds, in high speeds, a formal causality or pattern recognition may appear for the first time in human history. Analogy of proper proportionality, for example, is insists a mode of awareness destroyed by literacy, since the literate man insists on visual connections where being insists on resonance.
Letter to Jacques Maritain, May 6, 1969, in The Medium and the Light, 1999, p 72
Year: 1969
Chapter:
Pattern Recognition
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan