"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts."
-Marshall McLuhan
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"The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.“
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"Art is anything you can get away with."
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"Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century."
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"Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it."
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"Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam."
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