The Distraction of TV and the New Media

McLuhan: New mediums are used as a distraction to keep us unaware of the uncomfortable pressures of the new environmental force. Southern whites saw on television the March from say, Selma to Montgomery they had never seen this kind of integrated phenomenon. We've got to a position where you cannot even segregate distant cultures like Cambodia or China. They insist now on being part of world culture simultaneously with our own. And we have to live with them just as much as we do with baseball. It doesn't matter whether it's desirable or undesirable, it just won't work.