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Kazimirko
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“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.”
― Industrial Society and Its Future
― Industrial Society and Its Future
“The tool enables man to conquer. But, man, dost thou not know there is no more victory which is thy victory? The victory of our days belongs to the tool.”
― The Technological Society
― The Technological Society
“I was at peace with myself; and surely of all things in the world the rarest is a civilized man at peace with himself.”
― Kabloona
― Kabloona
“Grrrrr.”
― Mud, Sweat and Tears
― Mud, Sweat and Tears
“The human being is changing slowly under the pressure of the economic milieu; he is in process of becoming the uncomplicated being the liberal economist constructed.”
― The Technological Society
― The Technological Society
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