ABSTRACT
This chapter concerns the lack of effective political imagination and action throughout the world to match the power and effectiveness of the development of science and technology. It analyzes the cultural deep structures which are blocking this political imagination and action in order to come to some understanding of what might be done to weaken these constraints. By shedding some light on the constraints and determinisms related to modem political life, the chapter stimulates democratic political imagination and action, which are vital if humanity is to transcend the many problems it now faces. It outlines the significance of the phenomenon of technique for human life and society in general and politics in particular. Using a theory of culture, the chapter argues that human life becomes coherent and integral to the extent that internalized experiences are interrelated into patterns and structures grafted into the genetically established organization of the brain.
