Leon Battista Alberti Canadian consumers race across the border to buy the kind of cheap goods that a country with low wages and a third-rate social security system can produce. There is a tendency among some Pagans to want to be back in, let us say, sixth-century Wales instead of wanting a transformed world. Going back to sixth-century Wales is a fantasy that is dear to me. It's part of the archetypal dream. But that is all it is.
Nobody really wants to go back into the past except a bunch of space cookies.
It is not modern technology that is desensitizing. It is the misuse of it that is. To live well in the present, to live decently and humanely, we must see into the future. In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but an unwitting imitator of nature. It does not matter whether this room is created by allowing for arbitrary forces as Newtonian dynamics does, or by allowing for arbitrary equations of state for matter, as General Relativity does, or for arbitrary motions of charges and dipoles, as Maxwell's electrodynamics does.