Question

“Literate man, civilized man, tends to restrict and enclose space and to separate functions, whereas tribal man had freely extended the form of his body to include the universe. Acting as an organ of the cosmos, tribal man accepted his bodily functions as modes of participation in the divine energies”. In this text from the book “Understanding media: the extensions of man”, Marshall Mcluhan:

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D) compares literate man and tribal man, saying that the first one is not so accessible to cosmic patterns as tribal man. He prefers separateness.

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A) compares literate man and tribal man and concludes that the literate man is inclined to accept his body as a model of the universe.

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B) says that tribal man prefers separateness and compartmented spaces.

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C) says that tribal man is indifferent to the cosmic.

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E) explains that tribal man has accepted an analytic technology of fragmentation.

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