…actually happening is that we are under the influence of a kind of chaotic attractor that is pulling us tighter and tighter. A tightening gyre, as William Butler Yeats said, a tightening gyre around a transformative principle that lies ahead of us in the

…the grip of a process that cannot be halted or accelerated but which is now in a process of tightening its gyres as William Butler Yeats said that what we call the chaos of 20th century history is in fact the speeding up of this temporal process to…

…meant. I mean that's what could be meant. Well to take a clearer poetic example, I think in sailing to Byzantium, William Butler Yeats says something about first of all he mentions the artifice of eternity, which is an interesting phrase but he says,…

…transition of identity. It's just over time you would become something completely eternal and machine-like. You know that poem by William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium, where he says, Once out of nature I would be a thing of gold and gold enameling,…

…the grip of a process that cannot be halted or accelerated, but which is now in a process of tightening its gyres. As William Butler Yeats said that what we call the chaos of 20th century history is in fact the speeding up of this temporal process to…

…so that it is a freely commanded object in the imagination. And what I mean by that is something like what William Butler Yeats is getting at in his poem sailing to Byzantium where he speaks of the artifice of eternity and talks about how,…