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going about their daily work: fishing, paddling up
and down the river, in and out of the huts, and
making fires. Innocent stuff. No propaganda here
at all. And it just blasted the society apart. Well,
these forms are that virulent, that potent, and
they have that far-reaching an affect on us too.
Only we have some insulation just from all the
other forms that are around.
Print, principally, has insulated us from the effects
of electricity. And I think print is our main line of
defence. If we want to retain any kind of civilized
character at all as a culture we need to keep print
going. Because print is the one thing on which we