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backward countries that have experienced little permeation
with our own mechanical and specialist culture are much better
able to confront and to electric technology. Not only have
backward and nonindustrial cultures no specialist habits to
overcome in their encounter with electromagnetism, but they
have still much of their traditional oral culture that has the
total, unified “field” character of our new electromagnetism.
Our old industrialized areas, having eroded their oral traditions
automatically, are in the position of having to rediscover them
in order to cope with the electric age.
In terms of the theme of media hot and cold, backward
countries are cool, and we are hot. The “city slicker” is hot, and
the rustic is cool. But in terms of the reversal of procedures and
values in the electric age, the past mechanical time was hot,
and we of the TV age are cool. The waltz was a hot, fast