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McLuhan (Letters [1987], p.179)
Ironically, the master of the witty phrase has
himself become a series of circulating one liners.
Initially coined as paradoxical mental grenades,
McLuhan’s signature phrases—the medium is the
message, the global village—have become
archetypal metaphors useful when interpreting or
debating the techno-cultural upheavals affecting
our lives. McLuhan’s protean influence lives on
rhetorically, embedded in the language. Typically,
the Oxford English Dictionary quotes one of his
sparkling lines under the entry on media: “Is not
the essence of education civil defence against