The Nomadic Alternative – Page 276

Man has made a Hell on earth more petrifying than any Pleistocene
presence. But in the shadow of his self-created Apocalypse, he has
a chance to find himself again on earth. The stage is set for him
to journey in this world along the Road of Trials and assure himself
of his humanity. At the time of his youthful initiation, he now
faces a clear-cut question and has a clear choice of the alterna-
tives. The question is, "Do you belong to MAN or the MACHINE?" With
each day more and more reply, "We belong to MAN, and there's nothing
wrong with him." There is no possibility for creating a New Man.
To tamper with his genetics will not produce a New Man, but an
adjunct of the machine, and ally of the Devil. Man is an infant
beside the Iguana and his career a fleeting moment of evolutionary
time. Yet he is an old man. His nature does not significantly change.
And he is kicking hard, greeting the brutality of the machine with
the sullen hostility of the pariah. The driving forces of history
are the ways of the wandering savage.