Everyone Has Been Taught That Technique Is

Enclosed Within His Artificial Creation, Man Finds That There Is “no Exit”; That He Cannot Pierce The Shell Of Technology Again To Find The Ancient Milieu To Which He Was Adapted For Hundreds Of Thousands Of Years . In Our Cities There Is No More Day Or Night Or Heat Or Cold. But There Is Overpopulation, Thralldom To Press And Television, Total Absence Of Purpose. All Men Are Constrained By Means External To Them To Ends Equally External. The Further The Technical Mechanism Develops That Allows Us To Escape Natural Necessity, The More We Are Subjected To Artificial Technical Necessities.

The Intellectual Who Wants To Do Her Work Properly Must Today Go Back To The Starting Point: The Woman Whom She Knows, And First Of All To Herself. It Is At That Level, And At No Other, That She Ought To Begin To Think About The World Situation.

Fate Operates When People Give Up

This Is Where Each Individual Must Decide For Himself. The Essential Thing Is The Decision To Challenge The Modern State, Which Without This Small Group Of Protesters Will Be Checked By Neither Brake, Value, Nor Reason.

Again I Want To Emphasize That The Study Of Propaganda Must Be Conducted Within The Context Of A Technological Society. Propaganda Is Called Upon To Solve Problems Created By Technology, To Play On Maladjustments, And To Integrate The Individual Into A Technological World.