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A Theme That Appears Repeatedly In The Writings Of The Social Critics Of The Second Half Of The 20th Century Is The Sense Of Purposelessness That Afflicts Many People In Modern Society.

Constitutional Rights Are Useful Up To A Point, But They Do Not Serve To Guarantee Much More Than What Could Be Called The Bourgeois Conception Of Freedom. According To The Bourgeois Conception, A "free" Man Is Essentially An Element Of A Social Machine And Has Only A Certain Set Of Prescribed And Delimited Freedoms; Freedoms That Are Designed To Serve The Needs Of The Social Machine More Than Those Of The Individual.

The Big Problem Is That People Don't Believe A Revolution Is Possible, And It Is Not Possible Precisely Because They Do Not Believe It Is Possible.

Imagine A Society That Subjects People To Conditions That Make Them Terribly Unhappy, Then Gives Them The Drugs To Take Away Their Unhappiness. Science Fiction? It Is Already Happening To Some Extent In Our Own Society... Instead Of Removing The Conditions That Make People Depressed, Modern Society Gives Them Antidepressant Drugs. In Effect, Antidepressants Are A Means Of Modifying An Individual's Internal State In Such A Way As To Enable Him To Tolerate Social Conditions That He Would Otherwise Find Intolerable.

I Don't Want To Live Long. I Would Rather Get The Death Penalty Than Spend The Rest Of My Life In Prison