{"id":3869,"date":"2010-02-05T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T05:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=3869"},"modified":"2018-09-26T04:07:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T23:07:35","slug":"we-march-backwards-into-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/we-march-backwards-into-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"We march backwards into the future&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3870\" title=\"Marshall_McLuhan_Yousuf_Karsh\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marshall_McLuhan_Yousuf_Karsh.jpg\" alt=\"Marshall_McLuhan_Yousuf_Karsh\" width=\"437\" height=\"409\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>(flashback, in situ)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In case you may have missed this selection of eminently quotable profundities, bon mots, maxims, aphorisms, and engaging witticisms by the sage rhetoricist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marshall_McLuhan\" target=\"_blank\">Marshall McLuhan<\/a> when first posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=925\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><em>\u2014<\/em><em>well, here we go again\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>+\u00a0 +\u00a0 +\u00a0 +\u00a0 +<\/p>\n<p><em>Whereas convictions depend on speed-ups, justice requires delay.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Money is the poor man\u2019s credit card.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We look at the present through a rear-view mirror.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We march backwards into the future.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Invention is the mother of necessities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You mean my whole fallacy\u2019s wrong?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mud sometimes gives the illusion of depth.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The trouble with a cheap, specialized education<br \/>\nis that you never stop paying for it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>People don\u2019t actually read newspapers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>They step into them every morning like a hot bath.<\/p>\n<p><em>Today each of us lives several hundred years in a decade.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>News, far more than art, is artifact.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When you are on the phone or on the air, you have no body.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Tomorrow is our permanent address.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>All advertising advertises advertising.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The answers are always inside the problem, not outside.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Politics offers yesterday\u2019s answers to today\u2019s questions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The missing link created far more interest<br \/>\nthan all the chains and explanations of being.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When a thing is current, it creates currency.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Food for the mind is like food for the body:<br \/>\nthe inputs are never the same as the outputs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The future of the book is the blurb.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The ignorance of how to use new knowledge stockpiles exponentially.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A road is a flattened-out wheel, rolled up in the belly of an airplane.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I may be wrong, but I\u2019m never in doubt. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This information is top security.<br \/>\nWhen you have read it, destroy yourself.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em> (Image: detail of rear-view McLuhan photograph taken by the late great Canadian photographer <a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yousuf_Karsh\" target=\"_blank\">Yousuf Karsh<\/a> on 21 January, 1967)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(flashback, in situ) In case you may have missed this selection of eminently quotable profundities, bon mots, maxims, aphorisms, and engaging witticisms by the sage rhetoricist Marshall McLuhan when first posted here\u2014well, here we go again\u2026 +\u00a0 +\u00a0 +\u00a0 +\u00a0 + Whereas convictions depend on speed-ups, justice requires delay. 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