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that makes accommodation to our older education
establishment quite difficult. One strategy of cultural response
would be to raise the visual level of the TV image to enable the
young student to gain access to the old visual world of the
classroom and the curriculum. This would be worth trying as a
temporary expedient. But TV is only one component of the
electric environment of instant circuitry that has succeeded
the old world of the wheel and nuts and bolts. We would be
foolish not to ease our transition from the fragmented visual
world of the existing educational establishment by every
possible means.
The existential philosophy, as well as the Theatre of the
Absurd, represents anti-environments that point to the critical
pressures of the new electric environment. Jean Paul Sartre, as
much as Samuel Beckett and Arthur Miller, has declared the