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This growing consumption is a sign not of abundance but of poverty; it is bound up with worry, want, and toil.

— Friedrich Georg Jünger The Failure of Technology (1956)

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No doubt the wise thing to do is to eat the apple itself rather than swallow the vitamins which may be extracted from it.

The Failure of Technology (1956)

The difference is fundamental, for in the first instance I am acting like a sick person, in the second like a healthy one.

The Failure of Technology (1956)

Without mechanical laws, that exactitude could not be achieved which in itself is nothing but the mechanical certainty that identical causes always produce identical effects.

The Failure of Technology (1956)

Man becomes organizable to the extent to which he practices mechanical activities.

The Failure of Technology (1956)

The machine gives a hungry impression. And this sensation of a growing, gnawing hunger, a hunger that becomes unbearable, emanates from everything in our entire technical arsenal.

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