The Concept Of "mental Health" In Our

Our Society Tends To Regard As A Sickness Any Mode Of Thought Or Behavior That Is Inconvenient For The System And This Is Plausible Because When An Individual Doesn't Fit Into The System It Causes Pain To The Individual As Well As Problems For The System. Thus The Manipulation Of An Individual To Adjust Him To The System Is Seen As A Cure For A Sickness And Therefore As Good.

The Big Problem Is That People Don't Believe A Revolution Is Possible, And It Is Not Possible Precisely Because They Do Not Believe It Is Possible.

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.

Power Depends Ultimately On Physical Force. By Teaching People That Violence Is Wrong (except, Of Course, When The System Itself Uses Violence Via The Police Or The Military), The System Maintains Its Monopoly On Physical Force And Thus Keeps All Power In Its Own Hands.

To Those Who Think That All This Sounds Like Science Fiction, We Point Out That Yesterday's Science Fiction Is Today's Fact. The Industrial Revolution Has Radically Altered Man's Environment And Way Of Life, And It Is Only To Be Expected That As Technology Is Increasingly Applied To The Human Body And Mind, Man Himself Will Be Altered As Radically As His Environment And Way Of Life Have Been.