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In this sense he is a rationalist as well as an idealist.
Enough has been said earlier apropos of the drive towards
applied knowledge inherent in print technology to give
additional significance to Lowenthal’s words. This is the
situation which David Riesman highlights in The Lonely Crowd
as the pattern of “inner direction.” Inner direction towards
remote goals is inseparable from print culture and the
perspective and vanishing point organization of space that are
part of it. The fact that no such organization of space or
culture is compatible with electronic simultaneity is what has
involved Western man in new anxiety for a century. In addition
to the solipsism and solitude and uniformity of print culture,
there is now the immediate electric pressure for its dissolution.
In a study of The Vanishing Adolescent (p. 25) Edgar Z.