Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.

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• Marshall McLuhan:

  Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield

• Marshall McLuhan:

  Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirati

• Marshall McLuhan:

  Affluence creates poverty.

• Marshall McLuhan:

  Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.

• Marshall McLuhan:

  Art is anything you can get away with.

• Marshall McLuhan:

  Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

• Marshall McLuhan:

  The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.

• Marshall McLuhan:

  Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

• Marshall McLuhan:

  The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.

• Marshall McLuhan:

  I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can alw