Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art 
and speculation.

*     It is possible that the entire group influenced by Marinetti 
and Moholy-Nagy has been as beguiled by a misunderstanding 
of the origins and causes of the profane configuration of life, on 
one hand, as of the “sacral” configuration, on the other. On the 
contrary, it is possible that even admitting the merely 
mechanical operation of technology in “sacralizing” and 
“desacralizing” human life, that the entire group of 
“irrationalists” in our century would still elect the “sacral” or 
auditory mode of organization of experience. For one thing, it is 
the emergent mode of the electro-magnetic or electronic, as de 
Chardin stresses. And for many the new, as such, is a mandate 
from outer space, even when it is a plunge back into nonliterate 
patterns of awareness. Though we see no inherent religious