The whole concept of enclosure as a means of con-
straint and as a means of classifying doesn't work
as well in our electronic world. The new feeling
that people have about guilt is not something that
can be privately assigned to some individual, but
is, rather, something shared by everybody, in some
mysterious way. This feeling seems to be returning
to our midst. In tribal societies we are told that
it is a familiar reaction, when some hideous event
occurs, for some people to say, "How horrible it
must be to feel like that," instead of blaming some-
body for having done something horrible. This feel-
ing is an aspect of the new mass culture we are
moving into—a world of total involvement in which
everybody is so profoundly involved with every-
body else and in which nobody can really imagine
what private guilt can be anymore.