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" In proportion as the milieu became more restrictive, the economic world approached completion. It became more and more difficult for anyone to do anything except work in order to live. But for what? Exclusively for consumption. Leisure was granted to men, but only the leisure of the consumer. Man's primordial functions of creating, praying, judging, disappeared in the rising tide of material goods. "

" The important concern is not the psychic and mental structure of the human being, but the uninterrupted flow of any and all goods which invention allows the economy to produce. Whence the measureless tituration of the human soul, the true issue of which is propaganda."

" Even people put out of work or ruined by technique, even those who criticize or attack it (without daring to go so far as to turn worshippers against them) have the bad conscience of all iconoclasts. They find neither within nor without themselves a compensating force for the one they call into question. They do not even live in despair, which would be a sign of their freedom."