recreational changes keep pace. You must change the whole 
pattern at once and the whole group together—and the people 
themselves must decide to move.”

     Margaret Mead  is thinking here of change as uniform 
speed-up of motion or a uniform hotting-up of temperatures in 
backward societies. We are certainly coming within conceivable 
range of a world automatically controlled to the point where we 
could say, “Six hours less radio in Indonesia next week or there 
will be a great falling off in literary attention.” Or, “We can 
program twenty more hours of TV in South Africa next week to 
cool down the tribal temperature raised by radio last week.” 
Whole cultures could now be programmed to keep their 
emotional climate stable in the same way that we have begun 
to know something about maintaining equilibrium in the 
commercial economies of the world.