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>Kekulé dreams the Great Serpent holding its own tail in its mouth, the
>dreaming Serpent which surrounds the World.  But the meanness, the cynicism
>with which this dream is to be used.  The Serpent that announces, "The
World
>is a closed thing, cyclical, resonant, eternally-returning," is to be
>delivered into a system whose only aim is to _violate_ the Cycle.  Taking
>and not giving back, demanding that "productivity" and "earnings" keep on
>increasing with time, the System removing from the rest of the World these
>vast quantities of energy to keep its own tiny desperate fraction showing a
>profit:  and not only most of humanity -- most of the World, animal,
>vegetable and mineral, is laid waste in the process.  The System may or may
>not understand that it's only buying time.  And that time is an artificial
>resource to begin with, of no value to anyone or anything but the System,
>which sooner or later MUST CRASH TO ITS DEATH, when its addiction to energy
>has become more than the rest of the World can supply, DRAGGING WITH IT
>INNOCENT SOULS all along the chain of life.  Living inside the System is
>like riding across the country in a bus driven by a maniac bent on suicide
>... though he's amiable enough, keeps cracking jokes back through the
>loudspeaker...
>
>--GR, p.412 (emphasis added)
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