information movement of all kinds.

     Centralism and extension of power by wheel and written 
word to the margins of empire are creative of the direct force, 
outside and external, to which men do not necessarily submit 
their minds. But implosion is the spell and incantation of the 
tribe and the family, to which men readily submit. Under 
technological explicitness, even of the urban centralist 
structure, some men managed to break out of the charmed 
circle of tribal magic. Mumford cites the words of the Chinese 
philosopher Mencius as a comment on this situation:

          When men are subdued by force they do not submit 
     in their minds, but only because their strength is 
     inadequate. When men are subdued by power in 
     personality they are pleased to their very heart’s core and