{"id":925,"date":"2008-09-23T22:56:07","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T03:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=925"},"modified":"2018-11-12T02:07:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T21:07:36","slug":"marshall-mcluhanisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/marshall-mcluhanisms\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshall McLuhanisms&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/marshall_mcluhan.jpg\" alt=\"marshall_mcluhan.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Winnipeg, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve ever sat through one of my lectures (or read my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?page_id=146\" target=\"_blank\">book<\/a>), you know that I frequently quote <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marshall_McLuhan\" target=\"_blank\">Marshall McLuhan<\/a> (an ex-Winnipeger). Enjoy these quick quips of his\u2026<\/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<\/em><br \/>\n<em>is that you never stop paying for it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>People don\u2019t actually read newspapers.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>They step into them every morning like a hot bath.<\/em><\/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<\/em><br \/>\n<em>than 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:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>the 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.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>When you have read it, destroy yourself.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg, Canada If you\u2019ve ever sat through one of my lectures (or read my book), you know that I frequently quote Marshall McLuhan (an ex-Winnipeger). Enjoy these quick quips of his\u2026 +\u00a0 +\u00a0 +\u00a0 +\u00a0 + Whereas convictions depend on speed-ups, justice requires delay. Money is the poor man\u2019s credit card. We look at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,8,11,13,14,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16765,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions\/16765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}