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imagine anybody wanting to use public media in a private way.
And this attitude has just nothing to do with Marx, Lenin, or
Communism. It is a normal tribal attitude of any oral society.
The Soviet press is their equivalent of our Madison Avenue in
shaping production and social processes.
Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.
* Carothers stresses that until phonetic writing split apart
thought and action, there was no alternative but to hold all
men responsible for their thoughts as much as their actions.
His great contribution has been to point to the breaking apart
of the magical world of the ear and the neutral world of the
eye, and to the emergence of the detribalized individual from
this split. It follows, of course, that literate man, when we meet
him in the Greek world, is a split man, a schizophrenic, as all