as the phonetic alphabet had been the break boundary 
between tribal and individualist man.

     The endless reversals or break boundaries passed in the 
interplay of the structures of bureaucracy and enterprise 
include the point at which individuals began to be held 
responsible and accountable for their “private actions.” That 
was the moment of the collapse of tribal collective authority. 
Centuries later, when further explosion and expansion had 
exhausted the powers of private action, corporate enterprise 
invented the idea of Public Debt, making the individual privately 
accountable for group action.

     As the nineteenth century heated up the mechanical and 
dissociative procedures of technical fragmentation, the entire 
attention of men turned to the associative and the corporate.