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up your physical organs to great violence, and you
become aggressive, as all our ancient cities were.
Mumford gives the complete story on the ancient
city as a battle ship, an instrument of aggression.
Nomadic man had no cities. Our cities today are
mockeries. They have no relevance whatever to
electric technology. They’re empty ghosts devoid
of all the older meaning they had under
mechanical conditions. Television man is nomadic
man again; he has only one possible environment
again: the globe. And information-gathering
becomes his occupation, he no longer has a job.
Work does not begin until you have specialization.
Originally nomadic man, the fisherman and food-