A Refuge Is Supposed To Prevent What?

The Modern Age Has Been Characterized By A Promethean Spirit, A Restless Energy That Preys On Speed Records And Shortcuts, Unmindful Of The Past, Uncaring Of The Future, Existing Only For The Moment And The Quick Fix. The Earthly Rhythms That Characterize A More Pastoral Way Of Life Have Been Shunted Aside To Make Room For The Fast Track Of An Urbanized Existence. Lost In A Sea Of Perpetual Technological Transition, Modern Man And Woman Find Themselves Increasingly Alienated From The Ecological Choreography Of The Planet.

Companies That Actually Survive And Flourish Are Going To Change Their Business Model From Production To Aggregating The Networks And The Network Services And Solutions. If You're A Construction Company Or An It Company Or A Logistics Company Or An Information Data Operation, To The Extent That You Can Find Ways To Help Build The Commons, You Can Get Some Commercial Value In That.

James Watt Patented His Steam Engine On The Eve Of The American Revolution, Consummating A Relationship Between Coal And The New Promethean Spirit Of The Age, And Humanity Made Its First Tentative Steps Into An Industrial Way Of Life That Would, Over The Next Two Centuries, Forever Change The World.

In This Country, The Health Concerns And The Environmental Concerns Are As Deep As In Europe. All The Surveys Show That. But Here, We Didn't Have The Cultural Dimension. This Is A Fast-food Culture.

We're Creating Multiple Personas. We're Creating A Thespian Sense Of Personality Where We See Ourselves As Works Of Art, And We See Everything In Our Environment As A Prop, As A Set, As A Stage, As A Backdrop For Filling Ourselves In. We Don't See Ourselves As Ever Completed. We Are In-formation.