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World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.

World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.

Marshall McLuhan
Military, War, Division
Marshall McLuhan (2015). “Culture Is Our Business”, p.66, Wipf and Stock Publishers

During the Second War, the U.S.O. sent special issues of the principal American magazines to the Armed Forces, with the ads omitted. The men insisted on having the ads back again. Naturally. The ads are by far the best part of any magazine or newspaper. More pains and thought, more wit and art go into the making of an ad than into any prose feature of press or magazine. Ads are news. What is wrong with them is that they are always good news.

Marshall McLuhan
Art, Pain, War

Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons.

Marshall McLuhan
War, Identity, Weapons
"Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, co-written with Eric McLuhan, p.97, 1988.

Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.

Marshall McLuhan
Educational, War, Independent
1964 UnderstandingMedia, ch.33.

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