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very clear as we move through the sixteenth and later
centuries. But today, as electricity creates conditions of
extreme interdependence on a global scale, we move swiftly
again into an auditory world of simultaneous events and over-
all awareness. Yet the habits of literacy persist in our speech,
our sensibilities, and in our arrangement of the spaces and
times of our daily lives. Short of some catastrophe, literacy and
visual bias could bear up for a long time against electricity and
“unified field” awareness. And the same is true the other way
around. Germans and the Japanese, while far-advanced in
literate and analytic technology, retained the core of auditory
tribal unity and total togetherness. The advent of radio, and
electricity generally, was not only for them but for all tribal
cultures a most intense experience. Long-literate cultures have
naturally more resistance to the auditory dynamic of the total
electric field culture of our time.