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Consistent Failure To Attain Goals Throughout Life Results In Defeatism, Low Self-esteem Or Depression.

There Is Nothing Wrong With Violence In Itself. In Any Particular Case, Whether Violence Is Good Or Bad Depends On How It Is Used And The Purpose For Which It Is Used.

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.

A Theme That Appears Repeatedly In The Writings Of The Social Critics Of The Second Half Of The 20th Century Is The Sense Of Purposelessness That Afflicts Many People In Modern Society.

The Techno-industrial System Is Exceptionally Tough Due To Its So-called "democratic" Structure And Its Resulting Flexibility. Because Dictatorial Systems Tend To Be Rigid, Social Tensions And Resistance Can Be Built Up In Them To The Point Where They Damage And Weaken The System And May Lead To Revolution. But In A "democratic" System, When Social Tension And Resistance Build Up Dangerously The System Backs Off Enough, It Compromises Enough, To Bring The Tensions Down To A Safe Level.