resumes the inclusive concept of “culture,” exactly as the 
primitive food-gatherer worked in complete equilibrium with his 
entire environment. Our quarry now, in this new nomadic and 
“workless” world, is knowledge and insight into the creative 
processes of life and society. Men left the closed world of the 
tribe for the “open society,” exchanging an ear for an eye by 
means of the technology of writing. The alphabet in particular 
enabled them to break out of the charmed circle and 
resonating magic of the tribal world. A similar process of 
economic change from the closed to the open society, from 
mercantilism and the economic protection of national trade to 
the open market ideal of the free-traders, was accomplished in 
more recent times by means of the printed word, and by 
moving from metallic to paper currencies. Today, electric 
technology puts the very concept of money in jeopardy, as the 
new dynamics of human interdependence shift from