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... reality in the higher organisms , par- ticularly man , involves a continued oscillation between the inner and the outer , the subjective and the objective fields , and this reality is not only limited but falsified by a one - sided ...
... reality in the higher organisms , par- ticularly man , involves a continued oscillation between the inner and the outer , the subjective and the objective fields , and this reality is not only limited but falsified by a one - sided ...
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... reality , since the only reality this society fully accepts is that which em- bodies these materialized psychoses and fixed ideas . On those terms , tech- nics becomes licensed irrationality . 7 : BRAVE NEW WORLD For a summation of all ...
... reality , since the only reality this society fully accepts is that which em- bodies these materialized psychoses and fixed ideas . On those terms , tech- nics becomes licensed irrationality . 7 : BRAVE NEW WORLD For a summation of all ...
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... REALITY The salient mark of the machines and utilities that the megamachine for its own irrational ends chooses to concentrate on is that they should draw on the largest possible stores of energy and utilize the most elaborate technical ...
... REALITY The salient mark of the machines and utilities that the megamachine for its own irrational ends chooses to concentrate on is that they should draw on the largest possible stores of energy and utilize the most elaborate technical ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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