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It Is Not Possible To Make A Lasting Compromise Between Technology And Freedom, Because Technology Is By Far The More Powerful Social Force And Continually Encroaches On Freedom Through Repeated Compromises.

People Do Not Consciously And Rationally Choose The Form Of Their Society. Societies Develop Through Processes Of Social Evolution That Are Not Under Rational Human Control.

We Are Not Supposed To Hate Anyone, Yet Almost Everyone Hates Somebody At Some Time Or Other, Whether He Admits It To Himself Or Not.

The Industrial Revolution And Its Consequences Have Been A Disaster For The Human Race.

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.