now brings oral and tribal ear-culture to the literate West. Not 
only does the visual, specialist, and fragmented Westerner have 
now to live in closest daily association with all the ancient oral 
cultures of the earth, but his own electric technology now 
begins to translate the visual or eye man back into the tribal 
and oral pattern with its seamless web of kinship and 
interdependence.

     We know from our own past the kind of energy that is 
released, as by fission, when literacy explodes the tribal or 
family unit. What do we know about the social and psychic 
energies that develop by electric fusion or implosion when 
literate individuals are suddenly gripped by an electromagnetic 
field, such as occurs in the new Common Market pressure in 
Europe? Make no mistake, the fusion of people who have known 
individualism and nationalism is not the same process as the