The misleading effect of books like George Orwell's 1984 is… - Marshall McLuhan

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The misleading effect of books like George Orwell's 1984 is to project into the future a state of affairs that already exists.

Marshall McLuhan

The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man · 2002 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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

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It is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behaviour.

As the Western world has invested every aspect of its waking life with visual order, with procedures and spaces that are uniform, continuous and connected, it has progressively alienated itself from needful involvement in its subconscious life.

Today we experience, in reverse, what pre-literate man faced with the advent of writing.

The misleading effect of books like George Orwell's 1984 is to project into the future a state of affairs that already exists. - Marshall McLuhan

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