Caitlin Wolfarth

“First we build the tools, then they build us.”
― Marshall McLuhan

“With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism. ”
― Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”
― Marshall McLuhan

“Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.”
― Noam Chomsky, Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda