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failed to notice that Athens was a greater school than any
university even he could dream up. In other words, the greatest
school had been put out for human use before it has been
thought out. Now, this is especially true of our media. They are
put out long before they are thought out. In fact, their being
put outside us tends to cancel the possibility of their being
thought of at all.
Everybody notices how coal and steel and cars affect the
arrangements of daily existence. In our time, study has finally
turned to the medium of language itself as shaping the
arrangements of daily life, so that society begins to look like a
linguistic echo or repeat of language norms, a fact that has
disturbed the Russian Communist party very deeply. Wedded as
they are to nineteenth-century industrial technology as the
basis of class liberation, nothing could be more subversive of