Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/06523_Field_TCUM T88.txt

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man, the hunter and food-gatherer, is socially static. On the
other hand, sedentary, specialist man is dynamic, explosive,
progressive. The new magnetic or world city will be static and
iconic or inclusive.

     In the ancient world the intuitive awareness of break
boundaries as points of reversal and of no return was embodied
in the Greek idea of hubris , which Toynbee presents in his Study
of History , under the head of “The Nemesis of Creativity” and
“The Reversal of Roles.” The Greek dramatists presented the
idea of creativity as creating, also, its own kind of blindness, as
in the case of Oedipus Rex, who solved the riddle of the Sphinx.
It was as if the Greeks felt that the penalty for one
breakthrough was a general sealing-off of awareness to the
total field. In a Chinese workÑThe Way and Its Power  (A. Waley
translation)—there is a series of instances of the overheated