TE Lawrence prophetically warns, haunts, from 1926 in Seven Pillars of Wisdom, relating the ‘unperceived foreknown”. (p221)
‘They were as unstable as water, and like water would perhaps finally prevail. Since the dawn of life, in successive waves they had been dashing themselves against the coasts of flesh. Each wave was broken, but, like the sea, wore away ever so little of the granite on which it failed, and some day, ages yet, might roll unchecked over the place where the material world had been, and God would move upon the face of those waters . . . The wash of that wave, thrown back by the resistance of vested things, will provide the matter of the following wave, when in fullness of time the sea shall be raised once more.’ (p41)
Swell of the sea, casting unchecked waves of invaders upon shores of comfort-addicted, digitally-distracted, and materialistic Western thought; seen from a century before.
From Weaver; the ”bourgeois”. . . solaced by man-made comforts, who resents the very thought that there exist mighty forces beyond his understanding’ (Ideas Have Consequences, p.115)
From London to New York; you were forewarned; will you too late pay attention to act?