Life in the 21st Century is a reader-supported publication. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber. "Accelerated change invokes the gyroscopic or principles of rigidity. Also, to high-speed change no adjustment is possible. We become spectators only, and must escape into understanding. This may be why the conservative has an advantage in such an age of speedy change and is frequently more radical in his suggestions and insights than the progressive who is trying to adjust. The practical progressive trying to make realistic adjustments to change exhausts himself in minor matters and has no energy to contemplate the overall." — Marshall McLuhan, 1960
Democratic and Environmental Necessity
Democratic and Environmental Necessity
Democratic and Environmental Necessity
Life in the 21st Century is a reader-supported publication. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber. "Accelerated change invokes the gyroscopic or principles of rigidity. Also, to high-speed change no adjustment is possible. We become spectators only, and must escape into understanding. This may be why the conservative has an advantage in such an age of speedy change and is frequently more radical in his suggestions and insights than the progressive who is trying to adjust. The practical progressive trying to make realistic adjustments to change exhausts himself in minor matters and has no energy to contemplate the overall." — Marshall McLuhan, 1960