A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

The stars are so big,
The moon is so small,
Stay as you are.
That,whether verbalized or not, is the message and the logic, not of the mechanical age, but of the electronic age in which we stand as the primitives of an undeveloped and unknown culture.
Speech to the Learned Societies Canada Conference in Montreal, June, 1961. Marshall McLuhan, The Humanities In The Electronic Age, a Speech to the annual meeting of The Humanities Association of Canada, Montreal , June (1961), First Published in The Humanities Association Bulletin , Vol. xxxiv, No.1, Fall (1961), p 4, Reprinted as McLuhan Unbound # 7, (2005),p 7
Year: 1961
↪ Also at #1888, #1934, #2661, #4135, #4245, #6132, #6172, #6948
Compiled by William Kuhns
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