Yeats wrote “things fall apart; the centre cannot hold”, but that doesn’t mean there is no centre; it means its being re-evaluated. Here is that phrase in context:
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of “Spiritus Mundi”
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?William Butler Yeats: The Second Coming
We are now in an age where we have to create for ourselves the ´centre´ just as we have to create a series of short-term ´communities´. But the source of the centre and the source of community is the same – the mystical centre, the perennial philosophy that is the eternal reality. Its just that the form of the centre and the form of the community changes a bit every day instead of lasting aeons.
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