The Medium Is the Message
literate and mechanical culture.
Electric speed mingles the cultures of prehistory with the dregs of industrial marketeers, the
nonliterate with the semiliterate and the postliterate. Mental breakdown of varying degrees is
the very common result of uprooting and inundation with new information and endless new
patterns of information. Wyndham Lewis made this a theme of his group of novels called The
Human Age. The first of these, The Childermass, is concerned precisely with accelerated
media change as a kind of massacre of the innocents. In our own world as we become more
aware of the effects of technology on psychic formation and manifestation, we are losing all
confidence in our right to assign guilt. Ancient pre historic societies regard violent crime as
pathetic. The killer is regarded as we do a cancer victim. "How terrible it must be to feel like
that," they say. J. M
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