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man encountering the electric implosion within his own culture
is his steady and rapid transformation into a complex and
depth-structured person emotionally aware of his total
interdependence with the rest of human society.
Representatives of the older Western individualism are even
now assuming the appearance, for good or ill, of Al Capp’s
General Bull Moose or of the John Birchers, tribally dedicated to
opposing the tribal. Fragmented, literate, and visual
individualism is not possible in an electrically patterned and
imploded society. So what is to be done? Do we dare to
confront such facts at the conscious level, or is it best to
becloud and repress such matters until some violence releases
us from the entire burden? For the fate of implosion and
interdependence is more terrible for Western man than the fate
of explosion and independence for tribal man. It may be merely
temperament in my own case, but I find some easing of the