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the grounded crews of military aircraft cannot be out of sight
of one another at any time. This is merely a time factor. More
relevant is the need for total involvement in role that goes with
this instant structure. The two pilots of one Canadian jet
fighter are matched with all the care used in a marriage bureau.
After many tests and long experience together they are
officially married by their commanding officer “till death do you
part.” There is no tongue-in-cheek about this. It is this same
kind of total integration into a role that raises the hackles of
any literate man faced by the implosive demands of the
seamless web of electric decision-making. Freedom in the
Western world has always taken the form of the explosive, the
divisive, advancing the separation of the individual from the
state. The reversal of that one-way movement outward from
centre-to-margin is as clearly owing to electricity as the great
Western explosion had, in the first place, been due to phonetic