The cultural era is past.
The new civilization, which may take centuries or a few thousand years to usher in, will not be another civilization—it will be the open stretch of realization which all the past civilizations have pointed to.
The city, which was the birth-place of civilization, such as we know it to be, will exist no more. There will be nuclei of course, but they will be mobile and fluid. The peoples of the earth will no longer be shut off from one another within states but will flow freely over the surface of the earth and intermingle.
There will be no fixed constellations of human aggregates.
Governments will give way to management, using the word in a broad sense. The politician will become as superannuated as the dodo bird. The machine will never be dominated, as some imagine; it will be scrapped, eventually, but not before men have the nature of the mystery which binds them to their creation.
The worship, investigation and subjugation of the machine will give way to the lure of all that is truly occult. This problem is bound up with the larger one of power—and of possession.
Man will be forced to realize that power must be kept open, fluid and free. His aim will be not to possess power but to radiate it.
You can find this passage in Henry Miller’s book, Sunday After the War, which is a phenomenal collection of stories and excerpts from his longer works.
Nice work ! Thank you, Constance Buck Ph.D.