Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation. (Marshall McLuhan)

Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.

Marshall McLuhan

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