Author: Marshall McLuhan
Brief Info: Canadian philosopher
Years Lived: 1911-1980
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Quotations
To distract the watchdog of the mind
Our conventional response to all media, namely that it is how they are used that counts, is the numb stance of the technological idiot. For the ‘content’ of a medium is like the juicy piece of meat carried by the burglar to distract the watchdog of the mind.
From the book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man