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01The counter-irritant spiral: McLuhan, Hans Selye, and relief that deepens the need for reliefIn 1964 McLuhan, reading the stress researcher Hans Selye, described relief that deepens the need for relief "like a drug habit." What users stop noticing is not the drug but their own shifted baseline.ArticleMcLuhan & media theory24 quotes · 8 min1 Oct