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telephone, or in politics, is hidden from most
literate and visually-oriented people since they
have an unconscious bias to approach everything
in terms of its “content.” Thus the Watergate
affair is only incidentally a political revolution and
is, in fact, a change in the entire perceptual and
imaginative life of our Western, and especially
American, world. At electric speed of information
movement, for example, the individual ego and
identity is enormously reduced in proportion as it
becomes deeply involved in the social lives of
mankind. Paradoxically the diminishing of the
private identity results, on the one hand, in a
great deal of individual permissiveness and laxity,