I Would Just Turn My Back And

The Industrial-technological System May Survive Or It May Break Down. If It Survives, It May Eventually Achieve A Low Level Of Physical And Psychological Suffering, But Only After Passing Through A Long And Very Painful Period Of Adjustment And Only At The Cost Of Permanently Reducing Human Beings And Many Other Living Organisms To Engineered Products And Mere Cogs In The Social Machine.

We Are Not Supposed To Hate Anyone, Yet Almost Everyone Hates Somebody At Some Time Or Other, Whether He Admits It To Himself Or Not.

The Big Problem Is That People Don't Believe A Revolution Is Possible, And It Is Not Possible Precisely Because They Do Not Believe It Is Possible.

Imagine A Society That Subjects People To Conditions That Make Them Terribly Unhappy, Then Gives Them The Drugs To Take Away Their Unhappiness. Science Fiction? It Is Already Happening To Some Extent In Our Own Society... Instead Of Removing The Conditions That Make People Depressed, Modern Society Gives Them Antidepressant Drugs. In Effect, Antidepressants Are A Means Of Modifying An Individual's Internal State In Such A Way As To Enable Him To Tolerate Social Conditions That He Would Otherwise Find Intolerable.

Crowding, Rapid Change And The Breakdown Of Communities Have Been Widely Recognized As Sources Of Social Problems. But We Do Not Believe They Are Enough To Account For The Extent Of The Problems That Are Seen Today.