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This is a story without end. All the world is still an America. The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita – unknown territory.
Daniel Boorstin (1983) The Discoverers, Random House, 745 pp. ISBN: 978-0-394-72625-0

Blind intelligence destroys sets and totalities, isolates all elements from their environment. It cannot conceive the inseparable link between observer and observed. The key realities are disintegrated, slipping through the cracks between academic disciplines. The human sciences no longer need a concept of the ‘human’, and sightless pedants conclude from this that the human does not exists, except as an illusion. The media are busily engaged in low-grade cretinization while the uni- versities devote themselves to high-grade cretinizations. The result of the dominant methodology is ever greater obscurantism, because there is no longer any associa- tion between the scattered elements of learning and no longer any way of encoding them and reflecting upon them.
Edgar Morin (1985) Blind Intelligence. In: And He Loved Big Brother (Eds. S.G. Shoham and F. Rosenstiel), Palgrave Macmillan UK, 165–169. doi:10.1007/978-1-349-07831-8_21