It Is Important Not To

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.

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.

Let's Stick To The Practical And The Concrete: Would You Like It If People Lived In A Virtual World? If Machines Were Smarter Than People? If, In The Future, People, Animals And Plants Were Products Of Technology? If You Don't Like These Ideas, Then For You The Computer And Biological Sciences Clearly Are Dangerous.

In Any Case It Is Not Normal To Put Into The Satisfaction Of Mere Curiosity The Amount Of Time And Effort That Scientists Put Into Their Work.

I Believe In Nothing.