But the technological synthesis we have begun to utilize in expressive media is becoming the catalyst for a synthesis of a more profound nature. The integration of art and technology will be riding the crest of these waves. Dialectic refers the interaction of opposites. Indeed, it would not be helpful to my argument to even suggest that there is some kind of synthesis to be found between dead and not dead. In this light, synthesis is the ongoing process of adjusting the balance between irreconcilable forces in an individual and a culture.
Artists are a prime example.
At best, this activity in turn encourages the process of synthesis required of the whole culture. One of the dualisms that any society must balance is that of rationality versus irrationality. In broad terms, the bulk of human history has been steeped in a thesis of irrationality. Faced now with the proven ills of both extremes, the crisis of our time is the crafting of a new resolution to these seemingly conflicting forces. Rationalism and analysis, wonderful tools that they are, are what allow us to identify this problem.