The Myth of the Machine: The pentagon of powerHarcourt, Brace & World, 1970 - Technology and civilization |
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Page 256
... extermination camps like Buchenwald and Auschwitz . By using napalm bombs the American Air Force had roasted alive 180,000 civilians in Tokyo in a single night . Thus the descent to total demoralization and extermination was neatly ...
... extermination camps like Buchenwald and Auschwitz . By using napalm bombs the American Air Force had roasted alive 180,000 civilians in Tokyo in a single night . Thus the descent to total demoralization and extermination was neatly ...
Page 362
... extermination are still lavishly subsidized by national governments and passively approved as a guarantee of stability and ' peace ' by their citizens . These projects for extermination are not less morbid because they have materialized ...
... extermination are still lavishly subsidized by national governments and passively approved as a guarantee of stability and ' peace ' by their citizens . These projects for extermination are not less morbid because they have materialized ...
Page 480
... Extermination , Assyrian model for , 251 ; compulsion to , 262 ; Darwinian accept- ance of , 387 ; Nazi plans for , 249 ; projects for , 362 ; Western man's , 9 Extermination bombing , military futility of , 252 Extermination camps ...
... Extermination , Assyrian model for , 251 ; compulsion to , 262 ; Darwinian accept- ance of , 387 ; Nazi plans for , 249 ; projects for , 362 ; Western man's , 9 Extermination bombing , military futility of , 252 Extermination camps ...
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CONTENTS | 3 |
THE STORY OF UTOPIAS 1922 | 7 |
THE GOLDEN DAY 1926 | 46 |
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