¶ City as Center of Abstract Intercourse
← City as Center of Abstract Intercourse (2) | City as Center of Abstract Intercourse →
Index Entry
“… So we have then the manufacturers going off deep into the country to be able to institute new automation, very far away from the semblance of their vast labor group. We have warehouses going out of the city. We have all the things which are heavy and physical which used to be in the city going away. In our earlier cities the city was a confluence of the physical; the metaphysical, the thinking of man was goin- on off in the remote places, in mountains, the proverbial scholar, when he really wanted to do thinking, went off into Shangri La. … Whereas the metaphysical used to be deployed and the physical was convergent in the city, now all the physical has gone out of the city and what is happening is that the people who go into the city go in there for the metaphysical-- for the abstract. The only manufacturing going in there is typewriters making symbols on paper: tickertapes. We have then the city becoming the center of the abstract intercourse of man, where he goes in either to exchange equities for goods. … cities are now where everybody is coming together and the automation and the technology has gone out completely onto the farm.”
