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In A Consumer Society There Are Inevitably Two Kinds Of Slaves: The Prisoners Of Addiction And The Prisoners Of Envy.

School Divides Life Into Two Segments, Which Are Increasingly Of Comparable Length. As Much As Anything Else, Schooling Implies Custodial Care For Persons Who Are Declared Undesirable Elsewhere By The Simple Fact That A School Has Been Built To Serve Them.

To Be Ignorant Or Unconvinced Of One's Own Needs Has Become The Unforgivable Anti-social Act. The Good Citizen Is One Who Imputes Standardized Needs To Himself With Such Conviction That He Drowns Out Any Desire For Alternatives, Much Less The Renunciation Of Need.

The Medicalization Of Early Diagnosis Not Only Hampers And Discourages Preventative Health-care But It Also Trains The Patient-to-be To Function In The Meantime As An Acolyte To His Doctor. He Learns To Depend On The Physician In Sickness And In Health. He Turns Into A Life-long Patient.

School Has Become The World Religion Of A Modernized Proletariat, And Makes Futile Promises Of Salvation To The Poor Of The Technological Age.