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... destruction a purely accidental one ? In the working out of this parallel and in the tracing of the archetypal machine through later Western history , I found that many obscure irrational manifestations in our own highly mechanized and ...
... destruction a purely accidental one ? In the working out of this parallel and in the tracing of the archetypal machine through later Western history , I found that many obscure irrational manifestations in our own highly mechanized and ...
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... destruction skilled . . . wrapped in an armor of terror . " With such sick - making sentiments we are still all too familiar : they are mimicked in the nuclear press releases of the Pentagon . Such constant assertions of power were ...
... destruction skilled . . . wrapped in an armor of terror . " With such sick - making sentiments we are still all too familiar : they are mimicked in the nuclear press releases of the Pentagon . Such constant assertions of power were ...
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... destruction and massacre , war in all its disruptive spontaneity temporarily overcame the built - in limita- tions of the megamachine . Hence the sense of joyful release that so often has accompanied the outbreak of war , when the daily ...
... destruction and massacre , war in all its disruptive spontaneity temporarily overcame the built - in limita- tions of the megamachine . Hence the sense of joyful release that so often has accompanied the outbreak of war , when the daily ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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