29 August 2008

Marshall McLuhan--- especially when i suffer info overload and have no idea at all


Remembering McLuhan, famous communication theorist. More known for his --THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE--legacy to information age prisoners like myself.

Some McLuhanisms (from a website dedicate to him: www.marshallmcluhan.com; also, visit http://www.mcluhan.ca/)
  • The story of modern America begins With the discovery of the white man by The Indians. -True di ba?
  • Whereas convictions depend on speed-ups, justice requires delay. --Kaya wag na magtaka bakit tambak kaso mga korte natin.
  • Invention is the mother of necessities. --cellphone at internet addicts, ang dami natin!
  • Mud sometimes gives the illusion of depth. --Maraming titser at estudyanteng ganito. hehe.
  • The road is our major architectural form. --just like our roads in this country.
  • Today each of us lives several hundred years in a decade. --kaya relak lang dapat.
  • When you are on the phone or on the air, you have no body.--i love this one. physicality+ presence+space=realness
  • All advertising advertises advertising.-- ... pera-pera lang yan.
  • This information is top security. When you have read it, destroy yourself. ---katakut but true
  • One of the nicest things about being big is the luxury of thinking little. --swak! tamaan magalit na.
  • Politics offers yesterday’s answers to today’s questions. --agree, grabe.
  • Food for the mind is like food for the body: the inputs are never the same as the outputs.--aruy!
  • At the speed of light, policies and political parties yield place to charismatic images.-- kaya puro pa-kyut na lang mga pulitiko. billboard kabi-kabila. anu ba yan??!!
—Copyright © 1986, McLuhan Associates, Ltd.

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