"World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation."
"The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas."
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Source: Herbert Marshall Mcluhan (2010). “Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews”, p.270, McClelland & Stewart
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