This is where William Burroughs comes in with his Naked Lunch. When we invent a new technology, we become cannibals. We eat ourselves alive since these technologies are merely extensions of ourselves. The new environment shaped by electric technology is a cannibalistic one that eats people. To survive one must study the habits of cannibals. Mcluhan, Marshall. Qtd in Stearn, G.E., MCLUHAN HOT AND COOL. NY: Dial, 1967: 261(?). McLuhan's quote of C G Jung: "Every Roman was surrounded by slaves. The slave and his psychology flooded ancient Italy, and every Roman became inwardly, and of course unwittingly, a slave. Because living constantly in the atmosphere of slaves, he became infected through the unconscious with their psychology. No one can shield himself from such an influence." The computer thus holds out the promise of a technologically engendered state of universal understanding and unity, a state of absorption in the Logos that could knit mankind into one family and create a perpetuity of harmony and peace.... Psychic communal integration, made possible at last by the electronic media, could create the universality of consciousness foreseen by Dante when he predicted that men would continue as no more than broken fragments until they were unified into an inclusive consciousness.In a Chris tian sense,this is merely a new interpretation of the mystical body of Christ; and Christ, after all, is the ultimate extension of man. Mcluhan, Marshall. Qtd in Stearn, G.E., MCLUHAN HOT AND COOL. NY: Dial, 1967: 261.