the neutral visual world of lineal organization.

     The situation of Africa today is complicated by the new 
electronic technology. Western man is himself being de-
Westernized by his own new speed-up, as much as the Africans 
are being detribalized by our old print and industrial technology. 
If we understood our own media old and new, these confusions 
and disruptions could be programmed and synchronized. The 
very success we enjoy in specializing and separating functions 
in order to have speedup, however, is at the same time the 
cause of inattention and unawareness of the situation. It has 
ever been thus in the Western world at least. Self-
consciousness of the causes and limits of one’s own culture 
seems to threaten the ego structure and is, therefore, avoided. 
Nietzsche said understanding stops action, and men of action 
seem to have an intuition of the fact in their shunning the