When we are confronted by the bold fraud dreamt up by men whose confusion and spiritual frustration is the fruit of Satanic pride, the truth that is in us is made alive and lancing; but when a triumphant technology croons the sickly boasts of the advertising men, when the great vaults and vistas of the human soul are obscured by images of silken glamor, and when it is plain that man lives not by bread alone but by toothpaste also, then we need the answer of St. Thomas. It is the answer of moral and intellectual discipline and ardor.
Marshall McLuhan,
"Education of Free Men in Democracy,"
in St. Louis University Studies in Honor of St. Thomas Aquinas,
1943
Nice post. Do you have this article as PDF? I cannot find it online.
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