themselves to one side of it, the mythic and collective. J. S. Mill, 
Matthew Arnold, and a great many others devoted themselves 
to the other side of the dilemma, the problem of individual 
culture and liberty in an age of mass-culture. But neither side 
has its meaning alone, nor can the causes of the dilemma be 
found anywhere but in the total galaxy of events that 
constitute literacy and Gutenberg technology. Our liberation 
from the dilemma may, as Joyce felt, come from the new 
electric technology, with its profound organic character. For the 
electric puts the mythic or collective dimension of human 
experience fully into the conscious wake-a-day world. Such is 
the meaning of the title Finnegans Wake . While the old Finn 
cycles had been tribally entranced in the collective night of the 
unconscious, the new Finn cycle of totally interdependent man 
must be lived in the daylight of consciousness.