bodies as really out there  and really independent of us, we will 
meet all technological challenges with the same sort of 
banana-skin pirouette and collapse.

     Archimedes once said, “Give me a place to stand and I will 
move the world.” Today he would have pointed to our electric 
media and said, “I will stand on your eyes, your ears, your 
nerves, and your brain, and the world will move in any tempo or 
pattern I choose.” We have leased these “places to stand” to 
private corporations.

     Arnold Toynbee has devoted much of his A Study of  
History  to analyzing the kinds of challenge faced by a variety of 
cultures during many centuries. Highly relevant to Western man 
is Toynbee’s explanation of how the lame and the crippled 
respond to their handicaps in a society of active warriors. They