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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