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population in touch with the fact that we now live
nomadically and globally. We are no longer a
sedentary, static people. Today the food-
gatherers and fishermen with special tasks, and
the agriculturalists with special skills, suddenly
change into city-dwellers. We no longer have
special tasks or special skills in the global
environment of television or radio. We live once
again in the food-gathering or, rather,
information-gathering universal environment of
nomadic man. The original nomadic man, because
he avoided the sedentary intensity of
specialization, was a peaceful man. Once you
begin to specialize you get intense and you step