periodically shattered and then put itself back together again, somehow. This is a sort of story of the beginnings and the sphere is, of course, that acoustic sphere. The sphere that is simultaneous. So the egg, the Humpty Dumpty story of the fall of Humpty Dumpty, and so on, is really a record of the Pre-Socratic philosophers. However, the acoustic man, the man who plays it by ear, is—
Forsdale: The pre-literate, the aural man—
McLuhan: The aural man. He’s coming back today in the electric age with devastating effects on our establishment because the electric man not only lacks a private identity, he also lacks any morals because he has no relation to natural law. Not having a body, he has no relation to natural law and therefore no morals. No morals in the
