Word: claustrum
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...changed. Television turns us all into what the author Paul Fussell calls "stationary tourists," electronic cosmopolites. The webbing of satellites around the planet, the "remote feeds" from almost anywhere, give us the illusion that we are world travelers, or at least that we are all caught in the planetary claustrum and interconnection. National Geographic specials take us farther, more vividly, than we would have the courage or knowledge to go if we were traveling in body, not just in mind. The television anchorman Dan Rather turns up in ragtop native drag in Afghanistan, the surrogate of our culture with...
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