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used that determines its value.” Again, “Firearms are in
themselves neither good nor bad; it is the way they are used
that determines their value.” That is, if the slugs reach the
right people firearms are good. If the TV tube fires the right
ammunition at the right people it is good. I am not being
perverse. There is simply nothing in the Sarnoff statement that
will bear scrutiny, for it ignores the nature of the medium, of
any and all media, in the true Narcissus style of one hypnotized
by the amputation and extension of his own being in a new
technical form. General Sarnoff went on to explain his attitude
to the technology of print, saying that it was true that print
caused much trash to circulate, but it had also disseminated
the Bible and the thoughts of seers and philosophers. It has
never occurred to General Sarnoff that any technology could do
anything but add itself on to what we already are.