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“For most of our lifetime civil war has been raging in the
world of art and entertainment. . . . Moving pictures,
gramophone records, radio, talking pictures. . . .” This is the
view of Donald McWhinnie, analyst of the radio medium. Most of
this civil war affects us in the depths of our psychic lives, as
well, since the war is conducted by forces that are extensions
and amplifications of our own beings. Indeed, the interplay
among media is only another name for this “civil war” that
rages in our society and our psyches alike. “To the blind all
things are sudden,” it has been said. The crossings or
hybridizations of the media release great new force and energy
as by fission or fusion. There need be no blindness in these
matters once we have been notified that there is anything to
observe.
It has now been explained that media, or the extensions