There Is No Free Society

The Slaves Of Developed Industrial Civilization Are Sublimated Slaves.

The Society Which Projects And Undertakes The Technological Transformation Of Nature Alters The Base Of Domination By Gradually Replacing Personal Dependence (of The Slave On The Master, The Serf On The Lord Of The Manor, The Lord On The Donor Of The Fief, Etc.) With Dependence On The "objective Order Of Things" (on Economic Laws, The Market Etc.).

The Soul Contains Few Secrets And Longings Which Cannot Be Sensibly Discussed, Analyzed, And Polled. Solitude, The Very Condition Which Sustained The Individual Against And Beyond His Society, Has Become Technically Impossible. Logical And Linguistic Analysis Demonstrate That The Old Metaphysical Problems Are Illusory Problems; The Quest For The "meaning" Of Things Can Be Reformulated As The Quest For The Meaning Of Words, And The Established Universe Of Discourse And Behavior Can Provide Perfectly Adequate Criteria For The Answer.

Precisely Because Galilean Science Is, In The Formation Of Its Concepts, The Technic Of A Specific Lebenswelt , It Does Not And Cannot Transcend This Lebenswelt . It Remains Essentially Within The Basic Experiential Framework And Within The Universe Of Ends Set By This Reality.

The Happy Consciousness Is Shaky Enough A Thin Surface Over Fear, Frustration, And Disgust.