"Until writing was invented, man lived in an acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizon-less, in the dark of mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, by terror.
This quote, regarding ones perception on life prior to writing technologies, really resonated with me. Although I believe that this thought by McLuhan is perhaps exaggerated, I found the idea of life being "boundless, directionless and horizon-less" to be interesting. The space lived in prior to the invention of writing is physically the same as now, however on a personal/ intellectual level the world is now seen and percieved completely differently
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