Carolina QuotesThe industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine.
Ted Kaczynski Connected to the Carolinas
Source
"Introduction", paragraph 2
- work
- Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
- year
- 1995
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