Horizontal Society Author:Lawrence Friedman Modern mass media-in particular, television-has radically and irretrievably altered our sense of identity and hence our social, political, and legal life, says Lawrence M. Friedman in this bold book. In traditional societies, identities were strongly vertical, fixed by birth or social position. But in today`s horizontal society people are freer ... more »to choose who they are and to form relationships on a plane of equality.« less