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To Those Who Think That All This Sounds Like Science Fiction, We Point Out That Yesterday's Science Fiction Is Today's Fact. The Industrial Revolution Has Radically Altered Man's Environment And Way Of Life, And It Is Only To Be Expected That As Technology Is Increasingly Applied To The Human Body And Mind, Man Himself Will Be Altered As Radically As His Environment And Way Of Life Have Been.

Those Who Are Most Sensitive About "politically Incorrect" Terminology Are Not The Average Black Ghetto-dweller, Asian Immigrant, Abused Woman Or Disabled Person, But A Minority Of Activists, Many Of Whom Do Not Even Belong To Any "oppressed" Group But Come From Privileged Strata Of Society.

Power Depends Ultimately On Physical Force. By Teaching People That Violence Is Wrong (except, Of Course, When The System Itself Uses Violence Via The Police Or The Military), The System Maintains Its Monopoly On Physical Force And Thus Keeps All Power In Its Own Hands.

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.

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.