Wyndham Lewis, in his trilogy The Human Age, began with The Childermass. Its theme is the massacre of innocents and the rape of the entire population by the popular media of press and film. Later in The Human Age Lewis explores the psychic mutations of men living in “the magnetic city,” the instant, electric and angelic (or diabolical) culture. Lewis views the action in a much more inclusive way than [William] Burroughs whose world is a paradigm of a future in which there can be no spectators but only participants.