to dislodge culture from the villages in which it was created, to resettle it at a distance, to readapt it to uncongenial surroundings. But this technological extension and resettlement could never unload the instincts and necessities of an ancient past outside history. We remained possessed by that which we no longer quite possessed: rituals and narratives that are in the strict sense anthropological.

James W. Carey, Communication as Culture: E…, loc. 59806