ABSTRACT
There are few who do not from time to time experience a desire to rebel against the social or political system, the prevailing order of things. Bureaucracy within the mind or society works on the principle of canon. In one respect the mind accepts canonic rule; it is glad to be part of a wider order and accepts the authority of its system of logic. This is Koestler's 'participatory tendency'. In this context cliches eventually dominate perception and thought.
