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information movement of all kinds.
Centralism and extension of power by wheel and written
word to the margins of empire are creative of the direct force,
outside and external, to which men do not necessarily submit
their minds. But implosion is the spell and incantation of the
tribe and the family, to which men readily submit. Under
technological explicitness, even of the urban centralist
structure, some men managed to break out of the charmed
circle of tribal magic. Mumford cites the words of the Chinese
philosopher Mencius as a comment on this situation:
When men are subdued by force they do not submit
in their minds, but only because their strength is
inadequate. When men are subdued by power in
personality they are pleased to their very heart’s core and