My sister Mere reminded me of a favorite thinker of mine:
Marshall McLuhanHe wrote, among others:
"The Meduim is the Massage" , which is a fav. of mine. It's a collage of thoughts, ideas, and interesting pictures. Good stuff. I suggest you check it out. It's enlightening. Also covered in
wikipedia.
CAPTION FOR THE IMAGE NUMBERED "2":
he past went that-a-way.When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear-view mirror.
We march backwards into the future. Suburbia lives imaginatively in Bonanza-land.CAPTION FOR THE IMAGE NUMBERED "1" :Art is anything you can get away with.
''The biggest and best woman in the world,'' an 82-foot-long, 20foot-high sculpture. You can walk around in her.
Niki de Saint Phalle, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.Great McLuhan Quotes:The story of modern America begins With the discovery of the white man by
The Indians.
Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public
incredulity.
Whereas convictions depend on speed-ups, justice requires delay.
The nature of people demands that most of them be engaged in the most
frivolous possible activities—like making money.
With telephone and TV it is not so much the message as the sender that is
“sent.”
Money is the poor man’s credit card.
We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into
the future.
Spaceship earth is still operated by railway conductors, just as NASA is managed by men with Newtonian goals.
Invention is the mother of necessities.
You mean my whole fallacy’s wrong?
Mud sometimes gives the illusion of depth.
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones?
The trouble with a cheap, specialized education is that you never stop paying for it.
People don’t actually read newspapers. They step into them every morning like a hot bath.
The road is our major architectural form.
Today each of us lives several hundred years in a decade.
Today the business of business is becoming the constant invention of new business.
The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.
