...the Internet is the government in the broad sense of "the thing that governs or dictates policy." The Internet is the new kind of awareness. It’s not something you look at. It is the way or means through which you look at things. So it becomes the basis of your whole way of thinking — your new way of imagining things — and this process is largely unconscious.

- "Eric McLuhan: The End of Geography" by Blake Harris Published in The X-Journals, November 11, 2008.