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alphabet or print or telegraph in shaping our behavior? For it is
absurd and ignoble to be shaped by such means. Knowledge
does not extend but restrict the areas of determinism. And the
influence of unexamined assumptions derived from technology
leads quite unnecessarily to maximal determinism in human life.
Emancipation from that trap is the goal of all education. But
the unconscious is no escape-hatch from a world of denuded
categories any more than Leibnizian or any other monism is a
resolution of Cartesian dualism. There is still the full ratio or
interplay of all the senses in concert, which permits light
through . That concert comes to an end with the stepping up of
one sense by technology, and by the insistence of light on . The
nightmare of light on is the world of Pascal: “Reason acts
slowly and with so many views upon so many principles which
always must be present, that at any time it may fall asleep or
get lost, for want of having all its principles present.” (103)