Putting The Earth Avoiders in Their Place

"There is no uncannier notion than that of the abandoned Earth, abandoned by human beings. People tend to think they emigrate, if for no other reason than to take along their memory of the Earth. They could never be as well off as here. Far reaching instruments would have to enable them to observe the world but without recognizing what they have lost, an inexhaustible homeland, and the false religion to which they have to ascribe this loss would already have been traded in, far too late, for another. One can assume that this new religion would be the right one; had it come in time, it would have saved the Earth for mankind."

- Elias Canetti, [early 1940s] in The Human Province

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