Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual. (Marshall McLuhan)

Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.

Marshall McLuhan

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