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description must precede valuation and therapy. To substitute
moral valuation for diagnosis is a natural and common enough
procedure, but not necessarily a fruitful one.
Karl Popper devotes the first part of his large study to
the detribalization of ancient Greece and the reaction to it. But
neither in Greece nor in the modern world does he give any
consideration to the dynamics of our technologically extended
senses as factors either in the opening or closing of societies.
His descriptions and analyses follow an economic and political
point of view. The passage below is especially relevant to The
Gutenberg Galaxy because it begins with the interplay of
cultures via commerce and ends with the dissolution of the
tribal state, even as it is dramatized by Shakespeare in King
Lear .