Unconscious

Transcribed by Nan

Alissa 7:35
Okay, so you say, you and Cameron talk about — okay, this phrase: “There was no more unconscious large enough.” So new technology is always an unconscious environment. That’s a contextual statement. And then “there was no more unconscious large enough to contain the materials generated by the breakdown of so much probing and environing.”

Bob 7:36
Okay, so what you gotta — that is a bit different I think ’cause there’s no unconscious until the Gutenberg. So once you get the books, people get slowed down. As McLuhan says, it makes you socially impotent. You get distracted, and you’re processing books in college or the monastery or wherever you’re reading books, say from 15 to 25, you’re not out there trying to get fucking laid, you’re reading books. Okay? And it’s a novelty, it’s a whole new sensory experience that’s enticing for a lot of people. So you’re processing books and you’re making a visually-biased brain. You’re, you’re, you’re suppressing your other senses. You’re emphasizing the eyeball, and the thinking and the left hemisphere. That’s the unconscious that is created by the Gutenberg era. So you use those concepts, archetypes, frames, to categorize experience. As you get into the electric age there’s a lot new experiences so you’re categorizing them. So, the literate unconscious framer, he is not developed as much as you get more into the electric age. People are collectively conscious and perceptually involved with everything in a somnambulistic way; they’re robots. So they don’t have any literate — less than less do they have literate frameworks to frame it. So, in that particular reference, I think in that sentence, the unconscious is the literate unconscious. There’s not enough literate categories to enframe all the new experiences you’re getting with the new environments which are unconscious on another level. You don’t know the effects of them. Just like you didn’t know when you read books that you were creating a literate unconscious which was suppressing your other senses and becoming an idiotic, opinionated nerd who thought it was very important what you thought about religion or politics.