It Is Important Not To Confuse Freedom

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.

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.

We Can Do Anything We Like As Long As It Is Unimportant.

But What First Motivated Me Wasn't Anything I Read. I Just Got Mad Seeing The Machines Ripping Up The Woods.

Those Who Are Most Sensitive About "politically Incorrect" Terminology Are Not The Average Black Ghetto-dweller, Asian Immigrant, Abused Woman Or Disabled Person, But A Minority Of Activists, Many Of Whom Do Not Even Belong To Any "oppressed" Group But Come From Privileged Strata Of Society.