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power of media in his concept of “etherialization,” which he
holds to be the principle of progressive simplification and
efficiency in any organization or technology. Typically, he is
ignoring the effect of the challenge of these forms upon the
response of our senses. He imagines that it is the response of
our opinions that is relevant to the effect of media and
technology in society, a “point of view” that is plainly the result
of the typographic spell. For the man in a literate and
homogenized society ceases to be sensitive to the diverse and
discontinuous life of forms. He acquires the illusion of the third
dimension and the “private point of view” as part of his
Narcissus fixation, and is quite shut off from Blake’s awareness
or that of the Psalmist, that we become what we behold.
Today when we want to get our bearings in our own
culture, and have need to stand aside from the bias and