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Instead of the voting bloc, we have the icon, the inclusive
image. Instead of a political viewpoint or platform, the inclusive
political posture or stance. Instead of the product, the process.
In periods of new and rapid growth there is a blurring of
outlines. In the TV image we have the supremacy of the blurred
outline, itself the maximal incentive to growth and new
“closure” or completion, especially for a consumer culture long
related to the sharp visual values that had become separated
from the other senses. So great is the change in American lives,
resulting from the loss of loyalty to the consumer package in
entertainment and commerce, that every enterprise, from
Madison Avenue and General Motors to Hollywood and General
Foods, has been shaken thoroughly and forced to seek new
strategies of action. What electric implosion or contraction has
done inter-personally and inter-nationally, the TV image does
intra-personally or intra-sensuously.