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the satisfactions disappear from previous human
arrangements and arrangements [sic ]. It’s like
eating a good meal in five minutes. The food may
get better and better, but the rim spin of the
transaction makes it inedible.
Any system, or any configuration of any
components whatever, collapse when subjected
to new speed-up. Ordinary speed-up simply
creates obsolescence. More intense forms create
war itself.
Marshall McLuhan to C.A. Doxiadis, Dec. 17,
1969, Letters of Marshall McLuhan , (Toronto,