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Notice, the electric surround of information that
has tended to make man a superman at the same
time reduces him into a pretty pitiable nobody by
merging him with everybody. It has extended man
in a colossal, superhuman way, but it has not
made individuals feel important. Our astronauts
were real skyscrapers but they don’t seem or feel
very important as private persons. Electrically, the
corporate human scale has become vast even as
private identity shrinks to the pitiable. The
ordinary man can feel so pitiably weak that, like a
skyjacker, he’ll reach for a superhuman dimension
of world coverage in a wild, desperate effort for
fulfillment, or he will buy a private psychiatrist to