seems to imagine himself as a consciousness encased in a bag of skin.”53 Thus reason is portrayed as a culturally derived and defective mechanism that imprisons us. We are advised to seek deeper meaning in play, festivity, and emotional and physical release. As North says, “The psychedelic baby eats the cybernetic monster.” There is considerable evidence for the generalization that a society that values reason tends to idolize it and, finally, turns against it. Greek rationality, which graced the