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does the poet, painter, or thinker of today. Where the whole
man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division
of labor and the specialization of functions and tasks in
sedentary, agricultural communities. In the computer age we
are once more totally involved in our roles. In the electric age
the “job of work” yields to dedication and commitment, as in
the tribe.
In nonliterate societies money relates itself to the other
organs of society quite simply. The role of money is enormously
increased after money begins to foster specialism and
separation of social functions. Money becomes, in fact, the
principal means of interrelating the ever more specialist
activities of literate society. The fragmenting power of the
visual sense, as literacy separates it from the other senses, is a
fact more easily identified now in the electronic age. Nowadays,