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theme in Jerusalem the organs of perception:
If Perceptive Organs vary, Objects of Perception seem to
vary:
If Perceptive Organs close, their Objects seem to close also.
To behold, use or perceive any extension of ourselves in
technological form is necessarily to embrace it. To listen to
radio or to read the printed page is to accept these extensions
of ourselves into our personal system and to undergo the
“closure” or displacement of perception that follows
automatically. It is this continuous embrace of our own
technology in daily use that puts us in the Narcissus role of
subliminal awareness and numbness in relation to these images
of ourselves. By continuously embracing technologies, we relate
ourselves to them as servomechanisms. That is why we must,