WORLD CHANGE
Reformers who treat the campaign against environmental and human degradation solely in terms of improved technological facilities, like the reduction of gasoline exhaust in motor cars, see only a small part of the problem. Nothing less than a profound re-orientation of our vaunted technological ‘way of life’ will save this planet from becoming a lifeless desert. And without such a wide-ranging preliminary alteration of personal desires, habits, and ideals the necessary physical measures for mankind’s protection – to say nothing of its further development – cannot conceivably be carried out… For its effective salvation mankind will need to undergo something like a spontaneous religious conversion: one that will replace the mechanical world with an organic world picture, and give to the human personality, as the highest known manifestation of life, the precedence it now gives to its machines and computers. From The Myth of the Machine, The Pentagon of Power, by Lewis Mumford, published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., NY, 1970, pg.…
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