way we might have been a hundred years ago, and 
will work on those terms, but only on those terms. 
Not as anything practical or up to date. It cannot 
possibly work that way.

So wherever new media interfere in a culture 
there’s going to be violence. Wherever you let them 
loose it’s going to change things. This has been so 
well documented in anthropology it’s ridiculous. 
Ted [Edmund] Carpenter, fifty years ago, was 
reporting on experiments done with radio, with 
film, on primitives who had never encountered 
anything and their reaction was instantaneous 
and profound. If they took radio into a tribal area