Marshall McLuhan Quotes:
Ocupation: Philosopher
Life: July 21, 1911 - December 31, 1980
Birthday: July 21
Death: December 31
With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.
topic: Suicidal, Technology, Men, Mechanism, Central Nervous System, Slings And Arrows
