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way we might have been a hundred years ago, and
will work on those terms, but only on those terms.
Not as anything practical or up to date. It cannot
possibly work that way.
So wherever new media interfere in a culture
there’s going to be violence. Wherever you let them
loose it’s going to change things. This has been so
well documented in anthropology it’s ridiculous.
Ted [Edmund] Carpenter, fifty years ago, was
reporting on experiments done with radio, with
film, on primitives who had never encountered
anything and their reaction was instantaneous
and profound. If they took radio into a tribal area