The Medium Is the Message
injustice. On the other hand, in a culture that assigns roles instead of jobs to people-the dwarf,
the skew, the child create their own spaces. They are not expected to fit into some uniform
and repeatable niche that is not their size anyway. Consider the phrase "It's a man's world." As
a quantitative observation endlessly repeated from within a homogenized culture, this phrase
refers to the men in such a culture who have to be homogenized Dagwoods in order to belong
at all. It is in our I.Q. testing that we have produced the greatest flood of misbegottten
standards. Unaware of our typographic cultural bias, our testers assume that uniform and
continuous habits are a sign of intelligence, thus eliminating the ear man and the tactile man.
C. P. Snow, reviewing a book of A. L. Rowse (The New York Times Book Review, December
24, 1961) on Appeasement and the road to Munich, describes the top level of British brains
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