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The credo for a new harmony
This, then, is the scenario of our journey into the prosperity trap, of our gradual approach to the point where inertia is reached in the civilization machine. This situation suddenly strikes one as very reminiscent of one of Jean Tinguely's machine sculptures, for instance his mechanically-driven perforated bucket which ceaselessly dips into the well in front of the Stadttheater in Basel to draw water, only to lose it through its holes. But when the civilization machine starts generating nothing but inertia and when the means for maintenance and renewal have been exhausted, the parts of the machine wear out by themselves. The danger that then arises is that the wheels will turn more and more slowly until finally ...
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