A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

We insist on using archaic concepts for processing and observing our most urgent problems. Let us recall the two Navajo Indians who were having a leisurely chat by smoke signals when an atom bomb occurred between them. Later, one of them sent up a comment, “Gee, I wish I’d said that.”
“The Subliminal Projection Project” (1957), pp 196-197
Year: 1957
Compiled by William Kuhns
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