Carolina QuotesPeople do not consciously and rationally choose the form of their society. Societies develop through processes of social evolution that are not under rational human control.
Ted Kaczynski Connected to the Carolinas
Source
"Some Principles of History", paragraph 106
- work
- Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
- year
- 1995
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