Written by William M Erlbaum   

The Clearing*


Living in the forest, we find ourselves at a clearing. We see members of different tribes in the clearing, and we hear different languages.

Do we want to enter the clearing? Who are these peoples, and what are they like?

Maybe we should have turned back and returned to our place in the forest? We knew its ways. They were our ways. We were by ourselves. We were a sect and had our sectarianism. But it's too late now.

More and more, there's only the clearing. The whole planet is the clearing, and living here is living in The City of the World, inhabited by our different tribes, speaking our different languages, possessing our different sectarianisms, and instantly connected electronically, in immediate touch with each other.

What's it like in The City of the World? It's contentious.

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*William M. Erlbaum
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