Shaping What Is To Come

"Just look at the troubles of the church. Look at the hideous forms of Islamic and Christian and Jewish fundamentalism--it's like we're witnessing the decay of these religions right in front of us while this new thing is being born. It's like Yeat's line from 'The Second Coming': 'What rough beast, its hour come round at last/Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?' It's this worldview that's slowly emerging, this rough beast. But it's unfinished. And folks, we've all got to go out there and contribute to it. I mean, either we do it, or we don't and we sink back into the next cataclysm. Because it ain't predetermined. It'a all up to us. And we know that deep down. We know it's up to us."

Michael Murphy, "The Fundamental Urge of the Universe"