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The hallucinogenic world, in environmental terms,
can be considered as a forlorn effort of man to
match the speed of power of his extended nervous
system (which we call the “electronic world”) by
intensifying the activity of his inner nervous
system. This is somewhat like the use of the fast
motor car as a way of fighting back at the
overpowering scale of highrise and metropolitan
buildings.
Marshall McLuhan to Robert J. Leuver, July 30,
1969, Letters of Marshall McLuhan , (Toronto,
1987), p. 388.