Violence is the effort to maintain and restore a weakened psyche. (p. 377) - Marshall McLuhan

My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

[On Jimmy Carter] "Huck Finn. Loss of identity drives people to nostalgia. Electronic man has no physical body, so he puts nostalgia in its place."

Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very weak identity.