¶ World Man
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World Man:
“The definition of a town as a place where you work and sleep will become realistically that of a one-town world. The whole historical pattern is going to be completely altered where men are inherently intimate with one another. Instead of being inherently remote we are inherently intimate. Everything we have done in all of our economic organization, the whole past history of man has been on the basis that we are remote. We are just going to have to reorientate ourselves to the fact that we are inherently intimate. This is going to bring about an entirely new set of circumstances. We are not separate countries or separate nations. We will be just as intimate as we are on the subway: you don’t really know where anybody comes from. There will be no national or continental distinctions whatsoever.”
¶ Citations
- Oregon Lecture #4, p. 117. 6 Jul’62
