there is a measure

... the civilization which is now in the process of being formed... is not only a civilization wholly other than those which have appeared up until now, but in addition is, I would say, a different world altogether. In our years, technology, whether or not that was its intention, is well on the way to destroying everywhere the systems which - as we said - were initially based on agriculture and animal husbandry, in East and West, and to abandon both them and the ancient cosmologies, philosophical visions, religions and myths, as well as the question which is of most moment for the whole world, physically and metaphysically: what for man constitutes the 'best life', as the Greeks formulated it. And it has not set out to destroy these systems alone, but every system or vision like them which has sustained smaller groups of human beings within the world, from the jungle to the steppe and from the savannah to the tundra.... If technological civilization in the course of its progress - whether this will be long or short we do not know - oversteps those difficult limits which the agricultural civilization knew as 'measure', μετρα in Greek (whether by doing physical damage or metaphysical harm), we can be sure that the Erinyes, 'the handmaidens of justice', will find the transgressor, track him down, and stop him. This law, one of the great themes of an age-old spirituality, has always functioned on all levels, for it was formulated not only in the Greek world around 500 BC by Heraclitus and the Tragedians, but before them by the Hebrews in the Psalms: 'Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over' and in the Proverbs: 'Remove not the ancient landmark, that thy fathers have set'.

- Zissimos Lorenzatos, Second Notebook 1975