The alphabet is an aggressive and militant absorber and transformer of culture, as Harold Innis was the first to show. (Marshall McLuhan)

The alphabet is an aggressive and militant absorber and transformer of culture, as Harold Innis was the first to show.

Marshall McLuhan

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