A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

This leads to the theme of violence as a response to situations in which you feel you have lost your identity, situations in which you have been ripped off by too-rapid changes, where you have suddenly been flipped from one situation to another without warning and you suddenly are minus your identity. You don't know who you are. You don't know where you are. This leads to a response of violence
Man and Media,” lecture delivered at York University, Toronto, (1979), in Understanding Me (2003), p 280
Year: 1979
Chapter: Identity
Compiled by William Kuhns
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