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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