She or he will put an end to intellectual rigidity and parochialism and topple the tables of the postmodern concept-traders so that theory may once more become the guiding principle of nations. Media philosophy, like quantum physics, should formulate a Theory of Everything under which all kinds of disparate questions can be grouped. His principle of the spirit as medium rendered bourgeois society a practicable entity. The spirit medium enables a qualitative leap, as with the childishly innocent body when it becomes the sexual body and yet remains the same. The medium creates unity by mediating between power and the body, so that both poles forever share a relationship of mutual dependence.
Power needs the body, and the body needs power.
The twentieth century is characterized by a form of power consisting of the coupled media of labor and sex, which ingeniously interwove the organization of public life with private life. Sex and labor are media in the sense that they mediate between the body and the social. Just as sex mediated between the sexes, so labor mediated between classes. Socioeconomic questions could thus be translated into psychosexual terms so social contradictions could be experienced on the psychological level as sexual conflicts. Since the masses thus understood themselves to be psychologically dependent on socioeconomic reality, they were open to irrational demands on matters of national interest.