ABSTRACT
Adopt, for the moment, a totally hypothetical stance. A new, unspoiled civilization has just been discovered, one unspoiled by the seductive guile of media intrusion, yet, through some mysterious, perhaps divine intervention, totally literate. Accept, with all of its improb- ability, your calisthenic assignment and responsibility of phasing all of our twentieth-century virtuoso media paraphernalia into a society that has practiced media abstinence from the beginning of time. It is assumed that you—being endowed with beneficent wisdom, a pool of sagacity, and extraordinary media logic—will make decisions grounded upon theoretical bases and not upon intuition or ignorance.
