Kit, Mondaugen, Plato and Heidegger

[bandwraith at aol.com]

When Kit has his electro-mystical moment in
the mineshaft- his sudden illumination, made
possible by electricity, made possible by falling
water coerced into turning a turbine for that
purpose- it is as if a circuit has been closed in
his brain. The equations disappear and he
"sees" directly what they represent.

>From that moment, Kit traces a geodesic that
leads to the divebomber.

This seems a rude update of the Allegory of the
Cave, and its companion- Metaphor of the Sun.
But it is "The Question Concerning Technology"
that makes it more so:

  "The hydroelectric plant is set into the current
  of the Rhine. It sets the Rhine to supplying it
  hydraulic pressure, which then sets the tur-
  bines turning. This turning sets those
  machines in motion whose thrust sets going
  the electric current for which the long-distance
  power station and its network of cables are set
  up to dispatch electricity. In the context of the
  interlocking processes pertaining to the orderly
  disposition of electrical energy, even the Rhine
  itself appears to be something at our command"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Question_Concerning_Technology#Hydroelectric_Power_Plant_v._The_Windmill

Monstrous.