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Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
The ultimate goal of a revolutionary movement today must be the total collapse of the worldwide technological system.
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How (2015)
No matter how much energy is provided, the system always expands rapidly until it is using all available energy, and then it demands still more.
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How (2015)
The bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be.
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
The development of a society can never be subject to rational human control.
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How (2015)
The system does not and cannot exist to satisfy human needs. Instead, it is human behavior that has to be modified to fit the needs of the system.
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
In the short term, natural selection favors self-propagating systems that pursue their own short-term advantage with little or no regard for long-term consequences.
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How (2015)
The system HAS TO force people to behave in ways that are increasingly remote from the natural pattern of human behavior.
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
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.
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one's physical needs.
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
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.
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
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.
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
The concept of “mental health” in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress.
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
Some people have low susceptibility to advertising and marketing techniques. These are the people who aren't interested in money. Material acquisition does not serve their need for the power process.
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
It’s more fun to watch the entertainment put out by the media than to read a sober essay
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
History is made by active, determined minorities, not by the majority
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
In any case it is not normal to put into the satisfaction of mere curiosity the amount of time and effort that scientists put into their work.
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
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.
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
As technology progresses and globalization grows more pervasive, the world-system becomes ever more complex and more tightly coupled, so that a catastrophic breakdown has to be expected sooner or later.
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How (2015)