Technology becomes truth. This represents the materialization of truth. Perhaps this is what Heidegger meant when he called technology the metaphysics of the twentieth century. Atomistic science has produced in effect a universe of random facts. We are detached consumers of interesting facts.
Reality is the sum of all facts but is known one fact at a time.
A nightmare desert where the both the subject and the social are corpses, victims of this society's brutal sign-violence. Technology and the visual images of the media tend to destroy meaning, without which all norms become exclusively norms of power. This ethic, however, must be as unrelenting as the civilization it opposes. But, if the alternative to resistance is the nightmare Stivers and others describe, then maybe Stivers' modest proposal, far from being feeble and naive, deserves consideration. Therein lies its real importance.