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in which long-literate and long-industrialized societies are
decidedly handicapped. The rich area of preliterate vitality felt
the hot impact of radio. The message of radio is one of violent,
unified implosion and resonance. For Africa, India, China, and
even Russia, radio is a profound archaic force, a time bond with
the most ancient past and long-forgotten experience.
Tradition, in a word, is the sense of the total past as now .
Its awakening is a natural result of radio impact and of electric
information, in general. For the intensely literate population,
however, radio engendered a profound unlocalizable sense of
guilt that sometimes expressed itself in the fellow-traveller
attitude. A newly found human involvement bred anxiety and
insecurity and unpredictability. Since literacy had fostered an
extreme of individualism, and radio had done just the opposite
in reviving the ancient experience of kinship webs of deep tribal