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You see the same [[thing ]] in [[cinema ]] [[history]], if we look at the impact of sound. Okay, 'what's the problem?', you might say. By adding the sound to the [[image ]] we simply get a more realistic rendering of [[reality]]. But that is not at all [[true]]. Interestingly enough, the movie directors who were most sensitive to what the introduction of sound really meant were generally conservatives, those who looked at it with scepticism, like Charlie Chaplin (up to a point), and Fritz Lang. Fritz Lang's Das Testament des Dr Mabuse, in a wonderful way, rendered this [[spectral ]] [[ghost]]-like [[dimension ]] of the voice, realising that voice never simply belongs to the [[body]]. This is just [[another ]] example of how a [[conservative]], as if he were afraid of the new medium, has a much better grasp of its [[uncanny ]] radical potentials.

In Charlie Chaplain's [[film ]] [[The Great Dictator]], he satirises [[Hitler ]] as Hinkel. The voice is perceived as something [[obscene]]. There is a wonderful [[scene ]] where Hinkel gives a big [[speech ]] and speaks totally meaningless, obscene [[words]]. Only from [[time ]] to time you recognise some everyday vulgar [[German ]] [[word ]] like 'Wienerschnitzel' or 'Kartoffelstrudel'. And this was an ingenious insight; how voice is like a kind of a spectral ghost. All this became [[apparent ]] to those conservatives who were sensitive for the break of the new.<ref>The One Measure of True [[Love ]] Is: You Can Insult the [[Other]]</ref>

'''[[Kid A ]] In Alphabet Land Vanquishes Another Vacuous Vagrant - The Vacillating Voice!'''

Wouldn't I Like To Shove A Bone Down Your Throat - But You've Already Got One Stuck Down It! Don't Get All Choked Up - Just Spit It Out! I Wanna Hear You Scream! But Once You Regain Your Faculties, And Rid Yourself Of That Foreign Body, All You'll Scream Is No! A Vox On Your First [[Born]]!