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pressure of typography by the uproar generated by that
release. For most people, their own ego image seems to have
been typographically conditioned, so that the electric age with
its return to inclusive experience threatens their idea of self.
These are the fragmented ones, for whom specialist toil renders
the mere prospect of leisure or jobless security a nightmare.
Electric simultaneity ends specialist learning and activity, and
demands interrelation in depth, even of the personality.
The case of Charlie Chaplin films helps to illumine this
problem. His Modern Times was taken to be a satire on the
fragmented character of modern tasks. As clown, Chaplin
presents the acrobatic feat in a mime of elaborate
incompetence, for any specialist task leaves out most of our
faculties. The clown reminds us of our fragmented state by
tackling acrobatic or special jobs in the spirit of the whole or