Carolina QuotesFanaticism has been properly described as redoubling one’s effort after one’s aim has been forgotten, and this definition will serve as a good introduction to the fallacy of technology, which is the conclusion that because a thing can be done it must be done. The means absorb completely, and man becomes blind to the very concept of ends.
Richard M. Weaver Carolinian
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p. 60
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- Ideas have Consequences (1948)
- year
- 1948
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- p. 60
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