NS: The industrial-modernist takeover was indeed based first upon substituting intellect for instinct. That cut us off from our visceral and evolved reactions to what is good or bad in our environment. But the second step is the most important: the intellectual brainwashing that then conditions human beings to accept unhealthy situations and products. This is the great breakthrough of both the left and the right (mass indoctrination to support “Great Leaders”), to abandon one’s heritage and culture so as to work for global finance and advertising firms. All of this started in the 1920s, and its fruits were the Bolshevik movement, the Nazi party, and the triumph of product advertising and consumerism. To come back to your statement, it was and still remains essential for such projects to de-condition our bodily instinct. Once detached from our neural system, we can be manipulated to commit atrocities.
Nikos Salingros, https://www.clarionreview.org/2017/09/building-with-biophilia-an-interview-with-nikos-salingaros/