"They’re still talking, but fewer people are #bothering to listen. The successor to politics will be #propaganda , not in the sense of a message or ideology, but the impact of the whole #technology of the times. So politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favour of his image, because the image will be so much more powerful than he could ever be." - Marshall McLuhan. Year 1972.
https://macleans.ca/society/life/the-lost-mcluhan-tapes-2/ Peter C. Newman interview.