1. Marshall McLuhan says, "This feeling is an aspect of the new mass culture we are moving into-- a world of total involvement with everybody else and in which nobody can really imagine what private guilt can be anymore" (61).
Does this quote have a direct correlation with the massive social networking that occurs every day on Facebook, Twitter or Myspace? These people tend to publish their every action, feeling and thought. Does this combine everyone and erase the boundaries associated with the term "private?"
2. "We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future. Suburbia lives imaginatively in Bonanza-land." (McLuhan 75)
What does McLuhan mean by "we look at the present through a rear-view mirror?" Does he mean, technology of the future is fast approaching today? Then, how does that connect with marching "backwards into the future?"
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