A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

I have discovered over the years that the effects of innovation are always subliminal, and because people resent having this pointed out, feeling that you are invading their privacy by so doing.
Letter to Pierre Elliott Trudeau, March 26, 1974, in Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987), p 494
Quote #4913
Year: 1974
Chapters: Dropout | Law of Implementation | Living Unity | Narcissus, Denial of Media Effects
↪ Also at #3298, #3306
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