The Myth of the Machine: The pentagon of powerHarcourt, Brace & World, 1970 - Technology and civilization |
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... civilization itself . These doubts encouraged the notion that if only the past institutions and structures of civilization were destroyed , men would be happy , virtuous , and free . Rousseau expressed this idea in its most extreme form ...
... civilization itself . These doubts encouraged the notion that if only the past institutions and structures of civilization were destroyed , men would be happy , virtuous , and free . Rousseau expressed this idea in its most extreme form ...
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... civilization , ' which has been imprinted upon every ' advanced ' culture ever since . The discovery that the world is always at the mercy of merciless men had been made by those Fifth Millennium hunting chiefs and proto - monarchs ...
... civilization , ' which has been imprinted upon every ' advanced ' culture ever since . The discovery that the world is always at the mercy of merciless men had been made by those Fifth Millennium hunting chiefs and proto - monarchs ...
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... civilization , the young are in fact addicted to its most decadent mass prod- ucts . This is a purely megatechnic primitivism . By reducing their world to a series of addled happenings , they invite the ultimate Happening against which ...
... civilization , the young are in fact addicted to its most decadent mass prod- ucts . This is a purely megatechnic primitivism . By reducing their world to a series of addled happenings , they invite the ultimate Happening against which ...
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CONTENTS | 3 |
THE STORY OF UTOPIAS 1922 | 7 |
THE GOLDEN DAY 1926 | 46 |
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