text: A quote from an interview with Douglas Coupland discussing some of Marshall McLuhan's theories, pulled from an article in yesterday's Globe and Mail:
  
  <<"And there was this one line from McLuhan that seemed especially relevant: “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 will ever be.”  >>
  
  Kind of speaks volumes, doesn't it?