America is 100% 18th century. The 18th century had chucked out the principle of metaphor and analogy—the basic fact that as A is to B so is C to D. AB:CD. It can see AB relations. But relations in four terms are still verboten. This amounts to deep occultation of nearly all human thought for the U.S.A.

The multi-leveled consciousness fostered by modern physics and anthropology is matched in the contemporary arts of music, poetry, and painting.

The environment is fired at us point-blank.

The mere obsolescence of the wheel does not mean its disappearance.

Strangely, in so progressive an age, when change has become the only constant i n our lives, we never ask, "Is the car here to stay?" The answer, of course, is "No. " In the electric age, the wheel itself is obsolescent.

It was the electric spark that enabled the gasoline engine to take over from the steam engine. The crossing of electricity, the biological form, with the mechanical form was never to release a greater force.

like the bees in the plant world, men have always been the sex organs of the technological world.