All modern control of technicity, all claim to wanting to be its master, is thus only an illusion that covers up - pretty badly at that - the metaphysical enslavement to technicity.
Technicity is producing beings themselves (producing nature and history) unto the calculable makability; unto the machination that thoroughly empowers the producibility. However, machination as the swaying of being calls technicity forth. And insofar as [G174] man's ownmost is decided upon as the "subject", the pursuit of technicity is withdrawn from man's willing and not willing. The subjectivity in the domain of man shapes itself most purely in nations; the community of a nation pushes to the extremes the individualization of man into subjectivity. Technicity attains mastery precisely there where being of beings is grasped from out of representedness and producedness of what is objective and situational. And again this mastery is not what marks one cultural area among others or one form of civilization, but is that "inabiding" the truth of beings that has forgotten the truth in favor of beings and in the interest of the unconditional mastery of their machination - the inabiding that as a component of this machination has surrendered itself unto, and submitted itself to, machination. This surrendered and never grounded "inabiding" the "truth" as the certainty of representing and producing 'beings in the whole', gives rise to all invention, all discovery, and all interpreted creative prowess, arrangement and conveyance by taking - in every respect and discretion - the "simplest", (i.e. shortest, fastest and cheapest) way.
The sway of the "machine" becomes graspable primarily out of the sway of technicity, which as a basic form of the unfolding of truth in the sense of securing the abjectness of beings is grounded by Occidental metaphysics and determined by its history. In the machine (as what sways, not as what is an individual thing) nature becomes primarily the secured, and that means the "actual" nature. Similarly, history becomes primarily the secured 'history' whose highest modern form consists in propaganda. In the same vein, even man himself becomes primarily the secured. who through breeding and schooling becomes trained for arranging all beings into calculable makability.
Unsure of itself, technicity is "inabiding" the forgottenness of being - being that continues not to be experienced since it is overshadowed by machinational beings. That endows the technically grounded openness of beings with the transparency of the arrangable and trainable, and with the character [G175] of simplicity understood as the unique controllability of the groundless, the empty.