Word: mumfordian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Culture of Bathrooms. Mumfordian man must not just look Mumfordwards. He must sense that the day is gone when millions could look to one great teacher for guidance. "The task of the individual Messiah . . . now devolves equally on all men"; tomorrow's model society must be a universal democracy of self-teachers. Candidates must begin not by enlisting in a party or signing a pledge, but by withdrawing into self-analysis and contemplation. Mumford realizes that a man can't just throw up his job and become a hermit, but he can "escape from [the] time cage...
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