All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody. - Marshall McLuhan

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All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.

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About Marshall McLuhan

Herbert Marshall McLuhan (21 July 1911 – 31 December 1980) was a Canadian philosopher, futurist, and communications theorist.

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Native Name: Herbert Marshall McLuhan
Alternative Names: Marshall MacLuhan Marshall Mac Luhan

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Electric technology is directly related to our central nervous systems, so it is ridiculous to talk of "what the public wants" played over its own nerves. (p. 68)

The invention of printing did away with anonymity, fostering ideas of literary fame and the habit of considering intellectual effort as private property. (p. 122)

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The person who falls suddenly experiences immunity to all pain or sensory stimuli because the central nervous system has to be protected from any intense thrust of sensation. Only gradually does he regain normal sensitivity to sights and sounds, at which time he may begin to tremble and perspire and to react as he would have done if the central nervous system had been prepared in advance for the fall that occurred unexpectedly.

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