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now brings oral and tribal ear-culture to the literate West. Not
only does the visual, specialist, and fragmented Westerner have
now to live in closest daily association with all the ancient oral
cultures of the earth, but his own electric technology now
begins to translate the visual or eye man back into the tribal
and oral pattern with its seamless web of kinship and
interdependence.
We know from our own past the kind of energy that is
released, as by fission, when literacy explodes the tribal or
family unit. What do we know about the social and psychic
energies that develop by electric fusion or implosion when
literate individuals are suddenly gripped by an electromagnetic
field, such as occurs in the new Common Market pressure in
Europe? Make no mistake, the fusion of people who have known
individualism and nationalism is not the same process as the