Samuel Beckett’s clowns. After three thousand years of 
specialist explosion and of increasing specialism and alienation 
in the technological extensions of our bodies, our world has 
become compressional by dramatic reversal. As electrically 
contracted, the globe is no more than a village. Electric speed in 
bringing all social and political functions together in a sudden 
implosion has heightened human awareness of responsibility to 
an intense degree. It is this implosive factor that alters the 
position of the Negro, the teen-ager, and some other groups. 
They can no longer be contained , in the political sense of 
limited association. They are now involved  in our lives, as we in 
theirs, thanks to the electric media.

     This is the Age of Anxiety for the reason of the electric 
implosion that compels commitment and participation, quite 
regardless of any “point of view.” The partial and specialized