Electricity, Atomism, Organicism

The harnessing of electricity has enabled the emergence of a new era in Communication, from the telegraph and telephone, to, most recently, and most elaborately, the World Wide Web.  Also emerging in the past few centuries has been Organicist concepts of Society, e. g. Durkheim's.  Now, according to the Atomist concept of Society, the existence of others is extrinsic to the conatus of any individual member, so, likewise, the emergence of a new mode of Communication, even if beneficial, is never more than an extrinsic development.  In contrast, in the context of the concept of Society as an Organism, an electrical means of Communication can be recognized as a writ large neural network.  So, there are two significant implications if the Organicist concept is correct.  First, there is a radical incommensurability between experiences on the World Wide Web, and those in the Atomist dimension of everyday life, e. g. in the Economic sphere of individualistic competition.  Second, while Organicists can recognize that incommensurability, Atomists cannot.  So, since Politics is still predominantly Atomist, Conservative and Liberal alike, there may be a prrvasive social dissolution in process the remedy for which is nowhere in sight.