In , Luigi Galvani discovered that electric current causes frogs' muscles to contract. Today, we know that the functioning of the muscles is controlled by weak electric impulses travelling from the brain via nerves.
In , James Clerk Maxwell developed a theory on electromagnetic waves, which represents the basis of radiophonics. In , Heinrich Hertz discovered radio waves, a rapidly oscillating electromagnetic field, and, in , Guglielm Marconi built the first radio receiver. In , Nikola Tesla guided a ship by radio waves from a distance of several kilometers. The progress of science changes attitudes towards the body. The age of electricity saw the development of electronic manipulation of the body, making it possible to use electric impulses in the brain under the pretence of an accident.
If electric impulses, shooting through the neurons while we are dreaming, are replaced by impulses of the encephalovideo, dreams can be transmitted to the sleeping. Dream interpreting psychoanalysis turns into a dream implanting psychosynthesis. While according to Weber the solution to the problem would be parliament and public control of bureaucratic organizations, the contemporary bureaucratic apparatus controls the public instead.
Christopher Lasch's analysis of the narcissistic character of consumer society holds true primarily for its power elite. Social power is concentrated within bureaucratic organizations which function on the principle of secret services and indirectly maintain the dependence of more than half the population, thus turning democratic apparatuses into a soap opera.
Centres of power organize the scientific elite, but their notions of Good and Evil are not subject to public reflection. The contemporary elite believes it has been chosen, and it believes in the sense-lessness of the people - the antithesis of the 18 th century Enlightenment, which with its social reforms enabled the formation of the scientific elite.
