Ocupation: Philosopher
Life: July 21, 1911 - December 31, 1980
Birthday: July 21
Death: December 31
Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction.
source: "Letters of Marshall McLuhan" by Marshall McLuhan, (p. 514), 1987.
topic: Loss, People, Identity, Loss Of Identity, Prompts, Rediscovery