merely additive, not causative. Hume’s argument, said 
Immanuel Kant, “awoke me from my dogmatic slumber.” 
Neither Hume nor Kant, however, detected the hidden cause of 
our Western bias toward sequence as “logic” in the all-pervasive 
technology of the alphabet. Today in the electric age we feel as 
free to invent nonlineal logics as we do to make non-Euclidean 
geometries. Even the assembly line, as the method of analytic 
sequence for mechanizing every kind of making and production, 
is nowadays yielding to new forms.

     Only alphabetic cultures have ever mastered connected 
lineal sequences as pervasive forms of psychic and social 
organization. The breaking up of every kind of experience into 
uniform units in order to produce faster action and change of 
form (applied knowledge) has been the secret of Western power 
over man and nature alike. That is the reason why our Western