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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

Marshall McLuhan
Life, Attitude, Views
Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.246, University of Toronto Press

The ordinary person senses the greatness of the odds against him even without thought or analysis, and he adapts his attitudes unconsciously. A huge passivity has settled on industrial society. For people carried about in mechanical vehicles, earning their living by waiting on machines, listening much of the waking day to canned music, watching packaged movie entertainment and capsulated news, for such people it would require an exceptional degree of awareness and an especial heroism of effort to be anything but supine consumers of processed goods.

Marshall McLuhan
Attitude, Greatness, Odds
"The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man" by Marshall McLuhan, (p. 21), 1951.

The artist must ever play and experiment with new means of arranging experience, even though the majority of his audience may prefer to remain fixed in their old perceptual attitudes.

Marshall McLuhan
Attitude, Mean, Artist
Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

Any expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.

Marshall McLuhan
Art, Attitude, Writing
"Understanding media: the extensions of man".

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