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causes acceleration in other media. It certainly contracts the
world to village size, and creates insatiable village tastes for
gossip, rumor, and personal malice. But while radio contracts
the world to village dimensions, it hasn’t the effect of
homogenizing the village quarters. Quite the contrary. In India,
where radio is the supreme form of communication, there are
more than a dozen official languages and the same number of
official radio networks. The effect of radio as a reviver of
archaism and ancient memories is not limited to Hitler’s
Germany. Ireland, Scotland, and Wales have undergone
resurgence of their ancient tongues since the coming of radio,
and the Israeli present an even more extreme instance of
linguistic revival. They now speak a language which has been
dead in books for centuries. Radio is not only a mighty
awakener of archaic memories, forces, and animosities, but a
decentralizing, pluralistic force, as is really the case with all