The new man looks at everything– politics, the city, social communities, the mind, the body, technology, art, philosophy, friendship, love, children, life, death, war, peace, belief, religion, science, truth– the new man looks at everything as though it is suddenly and newly apprehended. At the same time, the new man is aware of the vast and voluptuous past of all of these facets of human existence. Both wholly new, and richly ancient. Both oddly bizarre, conceptually immune to mental habituation, and familiar to the point of an almost personal intimacy that makes prediction not only possible but as effortless, though not as accurate, as sight.