used by the Machiavellians. So the conflict is between 
“conscience” and “resolution,” not in our sense at all, but 
between an over-all awareness and a merely private point of 
view. Thus, today the conflict goes the other way. The highly 
literate and individualist liberal mind is tormented by the 
pressure to become collectively oriented. The literate liberal is 
convinced that all real values are private, personal, individual. 
Such is the message of mere literacy. Yet the new electric 
technology pressures him towards the need for total human 
interdependence. Hamlet, on the other hand, saw the 
advantages of corporate responsibility and awareness 
(“conscience”) with each man in a role , not at his private 
peephole or “point of view.” Is it not obvious that there are 
always enough moral problems without also taking a moral 
stand on technological grounds?