industrial living as a frozen dream, and our awakening

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But then the scene changes to tomorrow and
Numeroso is asking Utopia what she thinks can
bring everyone back to real life.

Imagine, she says, not living any longer as a
passive consumer, or as a specialist producer of
just a part of the mechanical dream, but as a
wide-awake and active person who is somehow
enabled to share in the creative control of the
whole pattern of life as it occupies and shapes us
all.

Numeroso smiles.

And now Utopia begins to act strangely. She speaks
entrancingly of dismantling centralised controls
to the point where every one of us becomes a
priest, shaman, self-leader or a genius, as only a
few people did in the past, and no one does now
except a few artists or dictators perhaps.

And then she begins to type words of ancient
wisdom over the internet, of all things, and
everything begins to happen just as she foresees
as industrial living comes alive indeed!

The dream is over.

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