A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

We have seen how the Hearst press, employing the Jeffersonian arguments, really speaks for a great portion of America. Like the present ad of Revere Copper and Brass Incorporated, and with equal incoherence, unintelligibility, irrelevance, and total ignorance of the history of philosophy, politics, or economics, it rattles off the clichés and the postulates which were the intellectual currency of the philosophers of the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century.
The Mechanical Bride (1951), p 138
Year: 1951
Chapter: Democracy
Compiled by William Kuhns
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