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When things come at you very fast, naturally you
lose touch with yourself. Anybody moving into a
new world loses identity. If you go to China, and
you’ve never been there before, you’re a nobody.
You can’t relate to anything there. So, loss of
identity is something that happens in rapid
change. But everybody at the speed of light tends
to become a nobody. This is what’s called the
“Masked-Man.” The masked man has no identity.
He is so deeply involved in other people that he
doesn’t have any personal identity.
Marshall McLuhan, “A McLuhan Mosaic,Ó Marshall
McLuhan: The Man and His Message , (Golden,