Mechanization:
The techniques/technologies uprooting the cthonic spirit, detaching it from the ground, causing a split between the noumenon and the phenomenon.
This detachment is called “freedom”, liberating the individual from its nature, its past, so as to allow him to become anything he wishes, within the premises permitted and considered useful, by what offers this technique/technology.
This detachment also cause a schizophrenic identity, where gene and meme conflict, given the Nihilistic nature of the provider of this technique/technology.
Logos becomes self-referential - solipsistic.
Art imitates art.
The artifices (technologies) usurp the natural, the past, the independent from human logos.
Identity is built upon immediate utility: the individual becomes a part of the machinery, finding in this role its self.
The machines simply accentuate and enhance this role. they make it more productive, harmonious with the others (compatible) - integration.
Ritual, behavioral rules, establish the limits of what produces parity.
The individual is separated from his kind, its nature, individuated, making him harmless, and more easily integrated into the machinery.
His individuality is symbolic because as soon as he is detached from his nature he grasps upon the first identifier presented to him, to root himself in the present, the modern.
He is a number, a name, with no reference outside the human artifices he is integrated within.
Specialization is his only avenue towards distinction, within the context of utility (production/consumption).
As a specialist he focuses an average intellect upon a discipline - dedicating himself completely - birth of the social idiot savant or the institutionalized autistic.
He require a average intellect because the precedent, the supporting structures, the data accessibility, the established methodologies, do not require innovation or creativity, only adherence and discipline (dedication).
He can now find self as a functional part of the machinery, proud only of his productivity and his access to consuming goods; ambition in ascending up the mechanical rungs to a higher place, one where he is less expendable.