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do really submit.
As the expression of new specialist extensions of our
bodies the congregating of people and supplies in centres by
wheel and road called for endless reciprocal expansion in a
spongelike action of intake and output, which has entrapped all
urban structures everywhere in place and time. Mumford
observes: “If I interpret the evidence correctly, the cooperative
forms of urban polity were undermined and vitiated from the
outset by the destructive death-oriented myths which attended
. . . the exorbitant expansion of physical power and
technological adroitness.” To have such power by extension of
their own bodies, men must explode the inner unity of their
beings into explicit fragments. Today, in an age of implosion,
we are playing the ancient explosion backward, as on a film. We
can watch the pieces of man’s being coming together again in