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Marshall McLuhan Quotes: Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
         

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.


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Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
         



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