The medium is the message is a quote by Marshall McLuhan who was an influential media criticphilosopher in the 60 s . He was influential to guys like the Merry Pranksters who started the acid craze . ' Turn on , tune in , drop out ' was a phrase attributed to Timothy Leary , the father of acid culture but he said McLuhan gave him the quote . <| sep |> Yah i must of got them quick enough thankfully Grujic and Brannagan for 800 each . 5 k each is good <| sep |> The Eurozone the EU biggest economic project has been a clear failure , and the EU ability to secure trade deals has been pretty abysmal . So on the economic front i think its fair to say the EU has done badly . Growth in the Eurozone has unperformed pretty much every single country and trade block out there . Italy has had zero growth since its joined the euro until this year where it grew 0 . 5 %, which is pretty mental . Theres also Greece which lost 13 of its GPD something unheard of short of a natural disaster or large scale war . Spain effectively now has a lost generation due to out of control youth unemployment . Even places like Finland have gone from running strong surpluses with respectable yearly growth , to running deficits with unimpressive growth . All these issues with the Euro were predicted by economists before it was implemented , but they were ignored because the goal of European integration was seen as more important .