“Already this mode of conditioning has created a new psychological type: one bearing almost from birth the imprint of megatechnics in all its forms: a type unable to react directly to sights or sounds, to patterns or concrete objects, unable to function in any capacity without anxiety, indeed, unable to feel alive, except by permission or command of the machine and with the aid of the extra-organic apparatus that the Machine-God provides. In a multitude of cases, this conditioning has already reached the point of total dependence; and this state of submissive conformity has been hailed, by the more ominous prophets of this regime, as man's ultimate “liberation.'”

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