prepared to have their dreams realized in everyday life by the 
aesthetic action of radio and television. Yet these massive 
extensions of our central nervous systems have enveloped 
Western man in a daily session of synaesthesia. The Western 
way of life attained centuries since by the rigorous separation 
and specialization of the senses, with the visual sense atop the 
hierarchy, is not able to withstand the radio and TV waves that 
wash about the great visual structure of abstract Individual 
Man. Those who, from political motives, would now add their 
force to the anti-individual action of our electric technology are 
puny subliminal automatons aping the patterns of the 
prevailing electric pressures. A century ago they would, with 
equal somnambulism, have faced in the opposite direction. 
German Romantic poets and philosophers had been chanting in 
tribal chorus for a return to the dark unconscious for over a 
century before radio and Hitler made such a return difficult to