A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

[When discussing the possibility of the Church “abandoning itself without question to electric mentality”]

Technically speaking, the age in which we live is certainly favourable to an Antichrist. Just think: each person can instantly be tuned to a “new Christ” and mistake him for the real Christ. At such times it becomes crucial to hear properly and to tune yourself in to the right frequency.

How are you to argue with people who insist on sticking their heads in the invisible teeth of technology, calling the whole thing freedom?
Quoted in Hacking the Future by Arthur and Marilouise Kroker (1996), p 8
Year: 1996
↪ Also at #892, #2646, #7425
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