Whatever arrangements the former East-West rivals may conclude, the unmet needs of people in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, not to overlook those in Europe and North America, assure the continuation and intensification of social struggles. Indian revolt in Chiapas, Mexico, to safeguard cultural and physical survival, is a likely forerunner of many, many other similar movements. Second, the developments in the United States have gone furthest along the road to corporate control. These do not provide a framework for explaining the totality of human self-expression. Individual expression occurs each time a person dresses, goes out for a walk, meets friends, converses, or does any of a thousand routine exercises.
Expression is an inseparable part of life.
It is ludicrous to imagine that individual expression can be completely managed and controlled. Yet, no matter how integral to the person, it is ultimately subject to social boundaries that are themselves changeable but always present. The growth of private corporate power today is the prime contractor in the construction of contemporary boundaries to expression. The danger is that the instantaneity of its techniques defines its aims. The instant future.