Thanks so much for all this background (and for the CS 101 post which is how I got here in the first place) I really appreciate the info. It never feels good to see something you have high hopes for, and truly believe in, get lost in corporate gains. I had that with my last job as well. I wish I had seen it in its heyday but hopefully those of us who are members now can keep it a positive and happy experience.
Before the emergence of the wheeled, vehicle, there was merelythe abrasive traction principle-runners, skids, and skis precededwheels for vehicles, just as the abrasive, semirotary motion of thehand-operated spindle and drill preceded the full, free rotarymotion of the potter's wheel. There is a moment of translation or"abstraction" needed to separate the reciprocating movement of handfrom the free movement of wheel. "Doubtless the notion of the wheelcame originally from observing that rolling a log was easier thanshoving it," writes Lewis Mumford in Technics and Civilization.Some might object that log-rolling is closer to the spindleoperation of the hands than to the rotary movement of feet, andneed never have got translated into the technology of wheel. Understress, it is more natural to fragment our own bodily form, and tolet part of it go into another material, than it is to transfer anyof the motions of external objects into another material. To extendour bodily postures and motions into new materials, by way ofamplification, is a constant drive for more power. Most of ourbodily stresses are interpreted as needs for extending storage andmobility functions, such as occur, also, in speech, money, andwriting. All manner of utensils are a yielding to this bodilystress by means of extensions of the body. The need for storage andportability can readily be noted in vases, jars, and "slow matches"(stored fire).
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Radio is provided with its cloak of invisibility, like any othermedium. It comes to us ostensibly with person-to-person directnessthat is private and intimate, while in more urgent fact, it isreally a subliminal echo chamber of magical power to touch remoteand forgotten chords. All technological extensions of ourselvesmust be numb and subliminal, else we could not endure the leverageexerted upon us by such extension. Even more than telephone ortelegraph, radio is that extension of the central nervous systemthat is matched only by human speech itself. Is it not worthy ofour meditation that radio should be specially attuned to thatprimitive extension of our central nervous system, that aboriginalmass medium, the vernacular tongue? The crossing of these two mostintimate and potent of human technologies could not possibly havefailed to provide some extraordinary new shapes for humanexperience. So it proved with Hitler, the somnambulist. But doesthe detribalized and literate West imagine that it has earnedimmunity to the tribal magic of radio as a permanent possession?Our teenagers in the 1950s began to manifest many of the tribalstigmata. The adolescent, as opposed to the teenager, can now beclassified as a phenomenon of literacy. Is it not significant thatthe adolescent was indigenous only to those areas of England andAmerica where literacy had invested even food with abstract visualvalues? Europe never had adolescents. It had chaperones. Now, tothe teenager, radio gives privacy, and at the same time it providesthe tight tribal bond of the world of the common market, of song,and of resonance. The ear is hyperesthetic compared to the neutraleye. The ear is intolerant, closed, and exclusive, whereas the eyeis open, neutral, and associative. Ideas of tolerance came to the West only after two or three centuries ofliteracy and visual Gutenberg culture. No such saturation withvisual values had occurred in Germany by 1930. Russia is still farfrom any such involvement with visual order and values.
To the student of media, it is difficult to explain the humanindifference to social effects of these radical forces. Thephonetic alphabet and the printed word that exploded the closedtribal world into the open society of fragmented functions andspecialist knowledge and action have never been studied in theirroles as a magical transformer. The antithetic electric power ofinstant information that reverses social explosion into implosion,private enterprise into organization man, and expanding empiresinto common markets, has obtained as little recognition as thewritten word. The power of radio to retribalize mankind, its almostinstant reversal of individualism into collectivism, Fascist orMarxist, has gone unnoticed. So extraordinary is this unawarenessthat it is what needs to be explained. The transforming power ofmedia is easy to explain, but the ignoring of this power is not atall easy to explain. It goes without saying that the universalignoring of the psychic action of technology bespeaks some inherentfunction, some essential numbing of consciousness such as occursunder stress and shock conditions.
The history of radio is instructive as an indicator of the biasand blindness induced in any society by its pre-existenttechnology. The word "wireless," still used for radio in Britain,manifests the negative "horseless-carriage" attitude toward a newform. Early wireless was regarded as a form of telegraph, and wasnot seen even in relation to the telephone. David Sarnoff in 1916sent a memo to the Director of the American Marconi Company thatemployed him, advocating the idea of a music box in the home. Itwas ignored. That was the year of the Irish Easter rebellion and ofthe first radio broadcast. Wireless had already been used on shipsas ship-to-shore "telegraph." The Irish rebels used a ship'swireless to make, not a point-to-point message, but a diffusedbroadcast in the hope of getting word to some ship that would relaytheir story to the American press. And so it proved. Even afterbroadcasting had been in existence for some years, there was nocommercial interest in it. It was the amateur operators or hams andtheir fans, whose petitions finally got some action in favor ofthe setting up of facilities. There wasreluctance and opposition from the world of the press, which, inEngland, led to the formation of the BBC and the firm shackling ofradio by newspaper and advertising interests. This is an obviousrivalry that has not been openly discussed. The restrictivepressure by the press on radio and TV is still a hot issue inBritain and in Canada. But, typically, misunderstanding of thenature of the medium rendered the restraining policies quitefutile. Such has always been the case, most notoriously ingovernment censorship of the press and of the movies. Although themedium is the message, the controls go beyond programming. Therestraints are always directed to the "content," which is alwaysanother medium. The content of the press is literary statement, asthe content of the book is speech, and the content of the movie isthe novel. So the effects of radio are quite independent of itsprogramming. To those who have never studied media, this fact isquite as bafing as literacy is to natives, who say, "Why do youwrite? Can't you remember?"
The phenomenon of the paperback, the book in "cool" version, canhead this list of TV mandates, because the TV transformation ofbook culture into something else is manifested at that point.Europeans have had paperbacks from the first. From the beginningsof the automobile, they have preferred the wraparound space of thesmall car. The pictorial value of "enclosed space" for book, car,or house has never appealed to them. The paperback, especially inits highbrow form, was tried in America in the 1920s and thirtiesand forties. It was not, however, until 1953 that it suddenlybecame acceptable. No publisher really knows why. Not only is thepaperback a tactile, rather than a visual, package; it can be asreadily concerned with profound matters as with froth. The Americansince TV has lost his inhibitions and his innocence about depthculture. The paperback reader has discovered that he can enjoyAristotle or Confucius by simply slowing down. The old literatehabit of racing ahead on uniform lines of print yielded suddenly todepth reading. Reading in depth is, of course, not proper to theprinted word as such. Depth probing of words and language is anormal feature of oral and manuscript cultures, rather than ofprint. Europeans have always felt that the English and Americanslacked depth in their culture. Since radio, and especially sinceTV, English and American literary critics have exceeded theperformance of any European in depth and subtlety. The beatnikreaching out for Zen is only carrying the mandate of the TV mosaicout into the world of words and perception. The paperback itselfhas become a vast mosaic world in depth, expressive of the changedsense-life of Americans, for whom depth experience in words, as inphysics, has become entirely acceptable, and even sought after.
When everyday people like me are living on the edge of bankruptcy (but blocked from it) it's only referred to as a problem; but, when the financial junta/oligarchy doesn't get what it wants suddenly it's a "crisis"-- that's crap. Nobody cared for everyday people when the Bankruptcy Code and social safety nets were mercilessly gutted. Now that we have no money and are loosing what little bit we managed to scrape together, these ill-mannered and over-coddled brat businesses expect people like us to continue to live without healthcare, without retirement savings, without college education but live with unaffordable taxes and a FICO system that was never FAIR from the beginning.I say LET THEM FALL ON THEIR FACE! Let them experience life without help just like everyone else. Furthermore, I hope that every taxpayer in the country only FILE their paperwork and not pay any money- perhaps then this mythical concerned government will get a message that everyday people need a brake and some help out here in mainstreet.
I totally agree with some of the earlier comments that the filthy rich, the so called elite, are indeed calling the shots at the highest levels of government, to ascertain the gap between the "classes" remains where it is. And these rulers will stop at nothing to keep the status quo, for if one is to look closely at, for example, what happened exactly on Sept 11 2001- the four commercial jets allowed to be crashed freely; the three WTC buildings suspiciously collapsing as if by implosion; the massive insurance policy obtained just prior to the tragedy; Bush's behavior during, and even just before the "attacks",- all of it has the unmistakable stench of the "leaders" at work in order to justify attacking Afganistan and Iraq(oil related)here, and the sickening part is that it seems as if the truth will probably never come out...Disgusting and disturbing; who are the terrorists anyway??
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