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as the phonetic alphabet had been the break boundary
between tribal and individualist man.
The endless reversals or break boundaries passed in the
interplay of the structures of bureaucracy and enterprise
include the point at which individuals began to be held
responsible and accountable for their “private actions.” That
was the moment of the collapse of tribal collective authority.
Centuries later, when further explosion and expansion had
exhausted the powers of private action, corporate enterprise
invented the idea of Public Debt, making the individual privately
accountable for group action.
As the nineteenth century heated up the mechanical and
dissociative procedures of technical fragmentation, the entire
attention of men turned to the associative and the corporate.