My Occupation Now, I Suppose, Is Jail

It Is Not Possible To Make A Lasting Compromise Between Technology And Freedom, Because Technology Is By Far The More Powerful Social Force And Continually Encroaches On Freedom Through Repeated Compromises.

The Industrial Revolution And Its Consequences Have Been A Disaster For The Human Race.

[...] To Judge From The Internet Postings That People Have Sent Me, Probably Most Of What You Learned [about Me] Was Nonsense.

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.

Our Society Tends To Regard As A Sickness Any Mode Of Thought Or Behavior That Is Inconvenient For The System And This Is Plausible Because When An Individual Doesn't Fit Into The System It Causes Pain To The Individual As Well As Problems For The System. Thus The Manipulation Of An Individual To Adjust Him To The System Is Seen As A Cure For A Sickness And Therefore As Good.