The mass media...have become
inaccessible to the usual symbol-shapers (artists,
mystics, visionaries, cranks), so that the natural
process that would adjust a population to its dreams
has been radically aborted. It seems like the only
solution is for individuals to withdraw from the media-
world on their own separate initiative & try to recover
tribal, pre-urban group identities with more or less
homemade ideologies & worldviews...Which is
happening now--often violently--but unrecognized
as such because they still use the old words for their
new, haphazard syncretisms. Strictly speaking,
there is no more traditional culture. Anywhere.
In the world.