good thing?” variety. Such questions seem to mean: “How 
should we feel  about these matters?” They never suggest that 
anything could be done about them. Surely, understanding the 
formal dynamic or configuration of such events is the prime 
concern. That is really doing something. Control and action in 
terms of values must follow understanding. Value judgments 
have long been allowed to create a moral fog around 
technological change such as renders understanding 
impossible.

     But how were people prevented during these centuries 
from understanding what they were doing to themselves by 
means of visual quantification and fragmentation? Boasts on 
all hands of the segmental analysis of every function and 
operation of person and society, and wild laments that this 
splintering is also affecting the inner life! The split man enters