PASSING
PHASE
Loneliness,
apartness, isolation, and alienation
Are
endemic to the electron particles
Of
the age of the Antichrist.
Particles
are not cohesive but separate,
And if,
on the electron level of the proletariat, they
Aren't
negative, and hence frictional or reactive (like
the life-and-death antagonisms
of a proton-particle age),
Still
they remain independent,
Doing
their own particle thing
In the
privacy of their individual homes,
Each man
isolated from his neighbour
In
artificial self-indulgence,
A
kind of media hedonism of electron positivity.
Those
who are deeply of the State
Take
this situation for granted,
Others,
who may be more of the Church,
Complain
of loneliness and alienation.
Yet
others, who see ahead
To an
age of transcendental cohesion, know
That
their current isolation is but a passing phase,
Symptomatic
of materialist decadence,
A state
fragmentariness that will be superseded,
In due
Messianic time, by a cohesion
Namely,
the electron-wavicle cohesion
Of
the Centre in the ultimate civilization.
They, at
any rate, live in hope!