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the fallout shelter program was broached. The price of eternal
vigilance is indifference.
Nevertheless, it makes all the difference whether a hot
medium is used in a hot or a cool culture. The hot radio medium
used in cool or nonliterate cultures has a violent effect, quite
unlike its effect, say in England or America, where radio is felt
as entertainment. A cool or low literacy culture cannot accept
hot media like movies or radio as entertainment. They are, at
least, as radically upsetting for them as the cool TV medium
has proved to be for our high literacy world.
And as for the cool war and the hot bomb scare, the
cultural strategy that is desperately needed is humor and play.
It is play that cools off the hot situations of actual life by
miming them. Competitive sports between Russia and the West