Therapy, whether physical or social, is a counter-irritant 
that aids in that equilibrium of the physical organs which 
protect the central nervous system. Whereas pleasure is a 
counter-irritant (e.g., sports, entertainment, and alcohol), 
comfort is the removal of irritants. Both pleasure and comfort 
are strategies of equilibrium for the central nervous system.

     With the arrival of electric technology, man extended, or 
set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system 
itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that 
suggests a desperate and suicidal autoamputation, as if the 
central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical 
organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows 
of outrageous mechanism. It could well be that the successive 
mechanizations of the various physical organs since the 
invention of printing have made too violent and