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HUMAN CONDITIONING

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THE HUMAN CONDITION

"Technological devices have naturally changed as men’s habits and in doing so, they have necessarily modified the structure and functions of society.” (pg. 308) Again:”From this point of view it seems that every technical device, from the wheelbarrow to the airplane, in so far as it provided a new and more effective means of locomotion, has, or should have, marked an epoch in society. This is so far true as most other important changes in the means of transportation and communication. It is said likewise that every civilization carries in itself the seeds of its own destruction. Such seeds are likely to be the technical devices that introduce a new social order and usher out and old.” (Society, pages 309-310)" -Marshall McLuhan quoting G.K. Chesterton in G.K. Chesterton: A Practical Mystic.