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Lewis Mumford
“The repeated deaths of civilizations from internal disintegration and outward assault, massively documented by Arnold Toynbee, underscores the fact that the evil elements in this amalgam largely cancelled the benefits and blessings. The one lasting contribution of the megamachine was the myth of the machine itself: the notion that this machine was, by its very nature, absolutely irresistible- and yet, provided one did not oppose it, ultimately beneficent. That magical spell still enthralls both the controllers and the mass victims of the megamachine today.”
Lewis Mumford, Technics and Human Development

“Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home.”
Stanley Diamond, In Search of the Primitive: A Critique of Civilization

Gontran de Poncins
“I was at peace with myself; and surely of all things in the world the rarest is a civilized man at peace with himself.”
Gontran de Poncins, Kabloona

“But what kind of freedom does one have if one can use it only as someone else prescribes?”
Theodore J. Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future

“A chorus of voices exhorts kids to study science. No one stops to ask whether it is inhumane to force adolescents to spend the bulk of their time studying subjects most of them hate. When skilled workers are put out of a job by technical advances and have to undergo “retraining,” no one asks whether it is humiliating for them to be pushed around in this way. It is simply taken for granted that everyone must bow to technical necessity, and for good reason: If human needs were put before technical necessity there would be economic problems, unemployment, shortages or worse. The concept of “mental health” in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress.”
Theodore J. Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future

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