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creates the unique cultural flavor of any society. It pays
through the nose and all its other senses for each staple that
shapes its life.
That our human senses, of which all media are
extensions, are also fixed charges on our personal energies, and
that they also configure the awareness and experience of each
one of us, may be perceived in another connection mentioned
by the psychologist C. G. Jung:
Every Roman was surrounded by slaves. The slave and his
psychology flooded ancient Italy, and every Roman became
inwardly, and of course unwittingly, a slave. Because living
constantly in the atmosphere of slaves, he became infected
through the unconscious with their psychology. No one can
shield himself from such an influence (Contributions to