fission of “backward” and oral cultures that are just coming to 
individualism and nationalism. It is the difference between the 
“A” bomb and the “H” bomb. The latter is more violent, by far. 
Moreover, the products of electric fusion are immensely 
complex, while the products of fission are simple. Literacy 
creates very much simpler kinds of people than those that 
develop in the complex web of ordinary tribal and oral societies. 
For the fragmented man creates the homogenized Western 
world, while oral societies are made up of people differentiated, 
not by their specialist skills or visible marks, but by their unique 
emotional mixes. The oral man’s inner world is a tangle of 
complex emotions and feelings that the Western practical man 
has long ago eroded or suppressed within himself in the 
interest of efficiency and practicality.

     The immediate prospect for literate, fragmented Western