BOTTOM/UP IDENTITY—THE CULTURAL HERO (IN THE WEST)
GROUND | FIGURES | |||||
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SECRET GOVERNMENT | POPULAR ARTFORM | HIGHBROW ARTFORM | TECHNOLOGICAL ARTFORM | POPULAR ARCHETYPE (User as Monarch of) |
GHETTO (Drop-out) |
SYMPTOMS |
GLOBAL VILLAGE | ||||||
Phonetic Alphabet & Papyrus | Christ | Plato & Aristotle | Spoken Word | Tribe | Family | Caesar |
Print (Movable Type) | Shakespeare | Francis Bacon | Manuscript | Village | Tribe | Luther |
Industrial Revolution | Dickens | Darwin, Marx | Printed Book | Town | Village | Luddites |
Electronic Revolution | Joyce | Einstein, Freud | Newspaper | City | Town | Al Capone |
GLOBAL THEATER | ||||||
Television | a) Elvis b) Fellini |
Existentialism | a) Radio b) Movies |
Nation | City | McCarthyism |
Computer | a) Beatles b) Psychedelia |
a) Norman Mailer b) Marshall McLuhan |
a) B&W TV b) Color TV |
Planet | Nation | JFK Assassination |
Satellite | a) Punk Rock/New Wave b) Sat. Night Live c) Cults |
a) Club of Rome b) Club of Life c) Genetic Engineering |
a) Computer b & c) Mixed Corporate-Media |
Solar System | Planet | Watergate |
Second Coming | Ronald Reagan & Pope John Paul II | Furry Lint | Mass Man | Universe | Outer Space | Battle of the Harvest Moon |