causes acceleration in other media. It certainly contracts the 
world to village size, and creates insatiable village tastes for 
gossip, rumor, and personal malice. But while radio contracts 
the world to village dimensions, it hasn’t the effect of 
homogenizing the village quarters. Quite the contrary. In India, 
where radio is the supreme form of communication, there are 
more than a dozen official languages and the same number of 
official radio networks. The effect of radio as a reviver of 
archaism and ancient memories is not limited to Hitler’s 
Germany. Ireland, Scotland, and Wales have undergone 
resurgence of their ancient tongues since the coming of radio, 
and the Israeli present an even more extreme instance of 
linguistic revival. They now speak a language which has been 
dead in books for centuries. Radio is not only a mighty 
awakener of archaic memories, forces, and animosities, but a 
decentralizing, pluralistic force, as is really the case with all