Misc. Today's McLuhan--Pynchon associative tidbit

[Mark Kohut]

McLuhan is very fond --repeats, repeats---of the Cadmus myth.
 
King Cadmus brought the alphabet into his country.
 
And King Cadmus also sowed the dragon's teeth....
which grew as the military, soldiers.......
 
Therefore----mythically [you're wanting cause & effect?] ---the
alphabet, i.e. linear phonetic writing is linked not only to the 
Mechanic Age and Blake's (and the western world's) industrial 
revolution but
 
to war........................