Newsgroup: it.sport.formula1.moderato
Titolo: Montessori

Professor Todt:
"Ok, vediamo quest'anno chi è promosso e chi è bocciato.
Tiriamo la monetina..
Redbird-bocciato.
Ma professò..
BOCCIATO!
professor Schumacher:
"Allora ragazzi, se volete fare carriera dovete tagliare la strada a
questo, buttare fuori quell'altro..."
Professore di ed. fisica Montezemolo:
"..e se non vi vogliono fare vincere, MINACCIATE DI PORTARE VIA IL
PALLONE!!"
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 Professor Todt:
Bidello Barrichello promosso a supplente:
"Grazie per avermi lasciato insegnare"
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 "Grazie per avermi lasciato insegnare"
e bocciato anche te.
Ma perchč?
ciai er piede su a riga bianca... mi dispiace...
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 ciai er piede su a riga bianca... mi dispiace...
non si potrebbe commutare in rimandato, considerando che ho fatto la 
merendina tutto l'anno con una banana?
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100 metri.
BAM! partenza..
Barrichello, Barrichello, BarichELLO, BARRICHELLLLLOOOOOOO
zang - cianghetta del professore.
Ma Professň!
Ahň, ringrazia Dio che te faccio core nella mia squadra...
fischi generalizzati
ma no rompete le palle, queste cose se sempre faaatte
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On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 12:14:56 +0000, David Mancini wrote:
Diritto comparato :
se lo scorso anno ti hanno buttato fuori pista per batterti, è cosa buona
e giusta che tu l'hanno dopo faccia lo stesso, e anzi meriti un premio per
aver ristabilito l'etica sportiva.
BTW, mi pare che "occhio per occhio" sia una forma di risoluzione dei
conflitti piuttosto arcaica....
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 aver ristabilito l'etica sportiva.
se lo fai a quello che t'ha buttato fuori, avrà imparato la lezione.
Poi ci squalifichino pure a tutti e due, non c'è problema.
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> > se lo scorso anno ti hanno buttato fuori pista per batterti,
Mi hanno buttato fuori, ma ho vinto lo stesso.
In "compenso" hanno assegnato il titolo all'altro e io sono stato punito
per cose che avrei commesso nel passato.
Questo era quanto proponeva Montessori...
Ora chiudo perchè l'anatema che ti ha colpito, spero non colpisca anche
me!
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 Poi ci squalifichino pure a tutti e due, non c'è problema.
Si era parlato di etica ? Quindi se io domani vedo uno che mi frega la
macchina, sono autorizzato a fregargliela di rimando ? Oppure posso
semplicemente gonfiarlo di botte ?
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 semplicemente gonfiarlo di botte ?
Entrambe.
E possibilmente bendato in modo che non ti riconosca :-))

 semplicemente gonfiarlo di botte ?
Il caso è che ti hanno rubato la macchina davanti al poliziotto e il
poliziotto ha messo in galera te e ha premiato con un premio il
fuorilegge.
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 fuorilegge.
Desumo che il doppioquotato sia di Vinci: l'ennesimo sua manifestazione da 
Zelig all'incontrario (si veda il film di Woody Allen, non il cabaret)
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David Mancini wrote:
[cut]
*plonk*
ormai siamo allo stadio terminale...
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 Allen, non il cabaret)
....oppure potrebbe magari incarnare il Tennico di Benni
Io mi candido alla parte della Luisona
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 wrote:
Dunque vediamo se ho capito bene il tuo punto di vista. 
Inizi a seguire la F1 nel 1994 (cioè esattamente un anno dopo la sua
disfatta storica) come Schumacheriano e a specchio tifoso della
Ferrari. 
Improvvisamente un incontro che cambierà per sempre la tua vita: un
libraio! Tutto ciò che era rosso fiammante diventa marrone, tutto
quello che hai seguito per 10 anni diventa marrone.... Gli ultimi 10
anni della tua vita si tingono di marrone. Una enorme e infinita
distesa di merda.  Ma nonostante questo, cuntinui a guardare la F1, a
fare la raccolta degli articoli che ne parlano, a raccogliere tutto
quanto parli della Ferrari con dovizia e ossesssione. Quasiasi cosa
serva a dimostrare che il demonio è tra noi, e tutti gli altri sono
degli sprovveduti angioletti intrappolati da satana. 
Nel frattempo guardi regolarmente le gare americane e ti esalti a tal
punto da non risparmiarci la pantomima che in america si che sono
belli e bravi, che li sì che è uno spettacolo, e che qui invece è
naturalmente tutta merda. 
Comperi regolarmente AS, ne hai una collezione intera. Dopo qualche
centinaio di numeri, continui a comperarlo per la raccolta ma pensi
che sia una testata di merda, che dice cose di merda e che esca dalla
tipografia della Ferrari (ovviamente di merda).
Pensi che in questo gruppo ci siano i picciotti della mafia rossa, ma
non perdi giorno per venire a farci un giro e a scriverci sopra. Ogni
volta che parli della Ferrari tiri fuori improbabili paragoni da
testimone di geova parlando di Dio, la Madonna e tutti i santi. 
Parli regolarmente con il libro in mano, non citi mai un opinione che
sia frutto del tuo pensiero. Parli di Clark, di Fangio e di altri come
se ci avessi mangiato assieme e invece sono morti prima ancora che tu
sapessi che esisteva la F1 (vediamo se di default ti viene da postare
la data di morte di Fangio per dimostrare che mi sbaglio). 
E parli di messaggi pedagogici che lancia la Ferrari? 
Ma la grappa la compri o hai un contratto di sponsorizzazione a vita e
te la regalano? 
Saluti
Redbird
"Odiate così tanto la Ferrari che anche i semafori vi appaiono marroni? 
Andate da un oculista. Se non passa da un epatologo.
Se ancora non funziona vi rimane solo l'esorcista...."

 la data di morte di Fangio per dimostrare che mi sbaglio).
Ma Fangio non č morto di recente? Io direi 1999 o forse ancora piů tardi
Azz... controllo ora che č 1995
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 tipografia della Ferrari (ovviamente di merda).
Però va bene quando riporta notizie che possano smerdare la Ferrari....
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 fuorilegge.
Questo mi autorizza ad agire in maniera illegale ?
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 Se ancora non funziona vi rimane solo l'esorcista...."
No, ci basta il tempo. Abbiamo vissuto vent'anni meravigliosi, abbiamo la 
prospettiva di viverne altri venti :) Racconteremo ai nipotini, come in una 
favola... "Ci fu un tempo in cui Ali Babà si vestiva di rosso, con tutti i 
suoi ladroni, poi scoprirono che era Babbo Natale e tutto finì..."
Maui 

 Ferrari. 
Come dal '94?
Ha sempre raccontato in prima persona le storie di AS, poi di AP e 
segue la F1 dal '94?
C'è qualcosa che non mi torna .......

te la regalano? 
STANDING OVATION!
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 poi scoprirono che era Babbo Natale e tutto finì..."
Come i nostri nonni hanno raccontato a noi che ci fu un tempo in
cui Babbo Natale vestiva solo di verde, poi fu sponsorizzato
dalla CocaCola e da allora veste di rosso. [*]
Ciao.
Mauro
[*] Per chi non lo sapesse, non è una battuta: correva l'anno 1931.

 "Ok, vediamo quest'anno chi è promosso e chi è bocciato.
[ ... cut ]
E' iniziara la raccolta della legna per l'inverno ???
Salutami Don Chuck Castoro se lo incroci !! 

 Inizi a seguire la F1 nel 1994
ROTFL
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factory demanded regularity of behavior, a life
   governed by obedience to the rhythms of clock and calendar, the
   demands of foreman and supervisor. In the city or town, the needs of
   living in closely packed neighborhoods inhibited many actions
   previously unobjectionable.
 
   Both blue- and white-collar employees in larger establishments were
   mutually dependent on their fellows. as one man's work fit into
   another's, so one man's business was no longer his own. "The results
   of the new organization of life and work were apparent by 1900, when
   some 76 percent of the 2,805,346 inhabitants of Massachusetts were
   classified as urbanites. Much violent or irregular behavior which had
   been tolerable in a casual, independent society was no longer
   acceptable in the more formalized, cooperative atmosphere of the later
   period. . .The move to the cities had, in short, produced a more
   tractable, more socialized, more 'civilized' generation than its
   predecessors."
 
   17. (Paragraph 117) Apologists for the system are fond of citing cases

oversocialized
   leftist pays a heavy psychological price for his high level of
   socialization.
 
  SOME PRINCIPLES OF HISTORY
 
 
 
   99. Think of history as being the sum of two components: an erratic
   component that consists of unpredictable events that follow no
   discernible pattern, and a regular component that consists of
   long-term historical trends. Here we are concerned with the long-term
   trends.
 
   100. FIRST PRINCIPLE. If a SMALL change is made that affects a
   long-term historical trend, then the effect of that change will almost
   always be transitory - the trend will soon revert to its original
   state. (Example: A reform movement designed to clean up political
   corruption in a society rarely has more than a short-term effect;
   sooner or later the reformers relax and corruption creeps back in. The
   level of political corruption in a given society tends to remain
   constant, or to change only slowly with the evolution of the society.
   Normally, a political cleanup will be permanent only if accompa

people who pursue
   them, these activities are in large part surrogate activities. For
   example, the majority of scientists will probably agree that the
   "fulfillment" they get from their work is more important than the
   money and prestige they earn.
 
   41. For many if not most people, surrogate activities are less
   satisfying than the pursuit of real goals ( that is, goals that people
   would want to attain even if their need for the power process were
   already fulfilled). One indication of this is the fact that, in many
   or most cases, people who are deeply involved in surrogate activities
   are never satisfied, never at rest. Thus the money-maker constantly
   strives for more and more wealth. The scientist no sooner solves one
   problem than he moves on to the next. The long-distance runner drives
   himself to run always farther and faster. Many people who pursue
   surrogate activities will say that they get far more fulfillment from
   these activities than they do from the "mundane" business of
   satisfying their biological needs, but that it is because in our
   society the effort needed to satisfy the biological needs has been
   reduced to triviality. More importantly, in our society people do not
   satisfy their biological needs AUTONOMOUSLY but by functioning as
   parts of an immense social machine. In contrast, people generally have
   a great deal of autonomy in pursuing their surrogate activities. have
   a great deal of autonomy in pursuing their surrogate activities.
 
  AUTONOMY
 
 
 
   42. Autonomy as a part of the power process may not be necessary for
   every individual. But most people need a greater or lesser degree of
   autonomy in working toward their goals. Their efforts must be
   undertaken on their own initiative and must be under their own
   direction and control. Yet most people do not have to exert this
   initiative, direction and control as single individuals. It is usually
   enough to a

certainly a radical and fundamental change in the nature
   of society.
 
   141. People tend to assume that because a revolution involves a much
   greater change than reform does, it is more difficult to bring about
   than reform is. Actually, under certain circumstances revolution is
   much easier than reform. The reason is that a revolutionary movement
   can inspire an intensity of commitment that a reform movement cannot
   inspire. A reform movement merely offers to solve a particular social
   problem A revolutionary movement offers to solve all problems at one
   stroke and create a whole new world; it provides the kind of ideal for
   which people will take great risks and make great sacrifices. For this
   reasons it would be much easier to overthrow the whole technological
   system than to put effective, permanent restraints on the development
   of application of any one segment of technology, such as genetic
   engineering, but under suitable conditions large numbers of people may
   devote themselves passionately to a revolution against the
   industrial-technological system. As we noted in paragraph 132,
   reformers seeking to limite certain aspects of technology would be
   working to avoid a negative outcome. But revolutionaries work to gain
   a powerful reward -- fulfillment of their revolutionary vision -- and
   therefore work harder and more persistently than reformers do.
 
   142. Reform is always restrainde by the fear of painful consequences
   if changes go too far. But once a revolutionary fever has taken hold
   of a society, people are willing to undergo unlimited hardships for
   the sake of their revolution. This was clearly shown in the French and
   Russian Revolutions. It may be that in such cases only a minority of
   the population is really committed to the revolution, but this
   minority is sufficiently large and active so that it bec

form that will enable the unthinking majority to see the
   conflict of technology vs. nature in unambiguous terms. But even on
   this second level the ideology should not be expressed in language
   that is so cheap, intemperate or irrational that it alienates people
   of the thoughtful and rational type. Cheap, intemperate propaganda
   sometimes achieves impressive short-term gains, but it will be more
   advantageous in the long run to keep the loyalty of a small number of
   intelligently committed people than to arouse the passions of an
   unthinking, fickle mob who will change their attitude as soon as
   someone comes along with a better propaganda gimmick. However,
   propaganda of the rabble-rousing type may be necessary when the system
   is nearing the point of collapse and there is a final struggle between
   rival ideologies to determine which will become dominant when the old
   world-view goes under.
 
   189. Prior to that final struggle, the revolutionaries should not
   expect to have a majority of people on their side. History is made by
   active, determined minorities, not by the majority, which sel

"politically correct" types,
   feminists, gay and disability activists, animal rights activists and
   the like. But not everyone who is associated with one of these
   movements is a leftist. What we are trying to get at in discussing
   leftism is not so much a movement or an ideology as a psychological
   type, or rather a collection of related types. Thus, what we mean by
   "leftism" will emerge more clearly in the course of our discussion of
   leftist psychology (Also, see paragraphs 227-230.)
 
   8. Even so, our conception of leftism will remain a good deal less
   clear than we would wish, but there doesn't seem to be any remedy for
   this. All we are trying to do is indicate in a rough and approximate
   way the two psychological tendencies that we believe are the main
   driving force of modern leftism. We by no means claim to be telling
   the WHOLE truth about leftist psychology. Also, our discussion is
   meant to apply to modern leftism only. We leave open the question of
   the extent to which our discussion could be applied to the leftists of
   the 19th and early 20th century.
 
   9. The two psychological tendencies that underlie modern leftism we
   call "feelings of inferiority" and "oversocialization." Feelings of
   inferiority are characteristic of modern leftism as a whole, while
   oversocialization is characteristic only of a certain segment of
   modern leftism; but this segment is highly influential.
 
  FEELINGS OF INFERIORITY
 
 
 
   10. By "feelings of 

methods will not eventually be used to modify those aspects of the
   body that affect mental funtioning.
 
   150. As we mentioned in paragraph 134, industrial society seems likely
   to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of
   human behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems. And
   a considerable proportion of the system's economic and environmental
   problems result from the way human beings behave. Alienation, low
   self-esteem, depression, hostility, rebellion; children who won't
   study, youth gangs, illegal drug use, rape, child abuse , other
   crimes, unsafe sex, teen pregnancy, population growth, political
   corruption, race hatred, ethnic rivalry, bitter ideological conflict
   (i.e., pro-choice vs. pro-life), political extremism, terrorism,
   sabotage, anti-government groups, hate groups. All these threaten the
   very survival of the system. The system will be FORCED to use every
   practical means of controlling human behavior.
 
   151. Th

society. Clearly you can't have much
   progress in medicine without the whole technological system and
   everything that goes with it.
 
   122. Even if medical progress could be maintained without the rest of
   the technological system, it would by itself bring certain evils.
   Suppose for example that a cure for diabetes is discovered. People
   with a genetic tendency to diabetes will then be able to survive and
   reproduce as well as anyone else. Natural selection against genes for
   diabetes will cease and such genes will spread throughout the
   population. (This may be occurring to some extent already, since
   diabetes, while not curable, can be controlled through the use of
   insulin.) The same thing will happen with many other diseases
   susceptibility to which is affected by genetic degradation of the
   population. The only solution will be some sort of eugenics program or
   extensive genetic engineering of human beings, so that man in the
   future will no longer be a creation of nature, or of chance, or of God
   (depending on your religious or philosophical opinions), but a
   manufactured product.
 
   123. If you think that big government interferes in your life too much
   NOW, just wait till the government starts regulating the genetic
   constitution of your children. Such regulation will inevitably follow
   the introduction of genetic engineering of human beings, because the
   consequences of unregulated genetic engineering would be disastrous.
   [19]
 
   124. The usual response to such concerns is to talk about "medical
   ethics." But a code of ethics would not serve to protect freedom in
   the face of medical progress; it would only make matters worse. A code
   of ethics applicable to genetic engineering would be in effect a means
   of regulating the genetic constitution of human beings. Somebody
   (probably the upper-middle class, mostly

that oversocialization is among the more serious cruelties that human
   beings inflict on one another.
 
   27. We argue that a very important and influential segment of the
   modern left is oversocialized and that their oversocialization is of
   great importance in determining the direction of modern leftism.
   Leftists of the oversocialized type tend to be intellectuals or
   members of the upper-middle class. Notice that university
   intellectuals (3) constitute the most highly socialized segment of our
   society and also the most left-wing segment.
 
   28. The leftist of the oversocialized type tries to get off his
   psychological leash and assert his autonomy by rebelling. But usually
   he is not strong enough to rebel against the most basic values of
   society. Generally speaking, the goals of today's leftists are NOT in
   conflict with the accepted morality. On the contrary, the left takes
   an accepted moral principle, adopts it as its own, and then accuses
   mainstream society of violating that principle. Examples: racial
   equality, equality of the sexes, helping poor people, peace as opposed
   to war, nonviolence generally, freedom of expression, kindness to
   animals. More fundamentally, the duty of the individual to serve
   society and the duty of society to take care of the individual. All
   these have been deeply rooted values of our society (or at least of
   its middle and upper classes (4) for a long time. These values are
   explicitly or

signal victory that seemed to set up a solid barrier against further
   erosion of freedom through technological progress, most would tend to
   relax and turn their attention to more agreeable pursuits. But the
   scientists would remain busy in their laboratories, and technology as
   it progresses would find ways, in spite of any barriers, to exert more
   and more control over individuals and make them always more dependent
   on the system.
 
   133. No social arrangements, whether laws, institutions, customs or
   ethical codes, can provide permanent protection against technology.
   History shows that all social arrangements are transitory; they all
   change or break down eventually. But technological advances are
   permanent within the context of a given civilization. Suppose for
   example that it were possible to arrive at some social arrangements
   that would prevent genetic engineering from being applied to human
   beings, or prevent it from being applied in such a ways as to threaten
   freedom and dignity. Still, the technology would remain waiting.
   Sooner or later the social arrangement would break down. Probably
   sooner, given that pace of change in our society. Then genetic
   engineering would begin to invade our sphere of freedom, and this
   invasion would be irreversible (short of a breakdown of technological
   civilization itself). Any illusions about achieving anything permanent
   through social arrangements should be dispelled by what is currently
   happening with environmental legislation. A few years ago it seemed
   that there were secure legal barriers preventing at least SOME of the
   worst forms of environmental degradation. A change in the political
   wind, and those barriers begin to crumble.
 
   134. For all of the f

that we see today is certainly not the
   result of mere chance. It can only be a result fo the conditions of
   life that the system imposes on people. (We have argued that the most
   important of these conditions is disruption of the power process.) If
   the systems succeeds in imposing sufficient control over human
   behavior to assure itw own survival, a new watershed in human history
   will have passed. Whereas formerly the limits of human endurance have
   imposed limits on the development of societies (as we explained in
   paragraphs 143, 144), industrial-technological society will be able to
   pass those limits by modifying human beings, whether by psychological
   methods or biological methods or both. In the future, social systems
   will not be adjusted to suit the needs of human beings. Instead, human
   being will be adjusted to suit the needs of the system.
 
   [27] 152. Generally speaking, technological control over human
   behavior will probably not be introduced with a totalitarian intention
   or even through a conscious desire to restrict human freedom. [28]
   Each new step in the assertion of control over the human mind will be
   taken as a rational response to a problem that faces society, such as
   curing alcoholism, reducing the crime rate or inducing young people to
   study science and engineering. In many cases, there will be
   humanitarian justification. For example, when a psychiatrist
   prescribes an anti-depressant for a depressed patient, he is clearly
   doing that individual a favor. It would be inhumane to withhold the
   drug from someone who needs it. When parents send their children to
   Sylvan Learning Centers to have them manipulated into becoming
   enthusiastic about their studies, they do so from concern for their
   children's welfare. It may be that some of these parents wish that one
   didn't have 

the drives that one cannot adequately satisfy no
   matter how much effort one makes. One of these drives is the need for
   security. Our lives depend on decisions made by other people; we have
   no control over these decisions and usually we do not even know the
   people who make them. ("We live in a world in which relatively few
   people - maybe 500 or 1,00 - make the important decisions" - Philip B.
   Heymann of Harvard Law School, quoted by Anthony Lewis, New York
   Times, April 21, 1995.) Our lives depend on whether safety standards
   at a nuclear power plant are properly maintained; on how much
   pesticide is allowed to get into our food or how much pollution into
   our air; on how skillful (or incompetent) our doctor is; whether we
   lose or get a job may depend on decisions made by government
   economists or corporation executives; and so forth. Most individuals
   are not in a position to secure themselves against these threats to
   more [than] a very limited extent. The individual's search for
   security is therefore frustrated, which leads to a sense of
   powerlessness.
 
   68. It may be objected that primitive man is physically less secure
   than modern man, as is shown by his shorter life expectancy; hence
   modern man suffers from less, not more than the amount of insecurity
   that is normal for human beings. but psychological security does not
   closely correspond with physical security. What makes us FEEL secure
   is not so much objective security as a sense of confidence in our
   ability to take care of ourselves. Primitive man, threatened by a
   fierce animal or by hunger, can fight in self-defense or travel in
   search of food. He has no certainty of success in these efforts, but
   he is by no means

according to the rules laid down by
   one's employer. In many other ways as well, modern man is strapped
   down by a network of rules and regulations (explicit or implicit) that
   frustrate many of his impulses and thus interfere with the power
   process. Most of these regulations cannot be disposed with, because
   the are necessary for the functioning of industrial society.
 
   72. Modern society is in certain respects extremely permissive. In
   matters that are irrelevant to the functioning of the system we can
   generally do what we please. We can believe in any religion we like
   (as long as it does not encourage behavior that is dangerous to the
   system). We can go to bed with anyone we like (as long as we practice
   "safe sex"). We can do anything we like as long as it is UNIMPORTANT.
   But in all IMPORTANT matters the system tends increasingly to regulate
   our behavior.
 
   73. Behavior is regulated not only through explicit rules and not only
   by the government. Control is often exercised through indirect
   coercion or through psychological pressure or manipulation, and by

due to problems of human behavior (alienation, rebellion,
   hostility, a variety of social and psychological difficulties). We
   hope that the stresses through which the system is likely to pass will
   cause it to break down, or at least weaken it sufficiently so that a
   revolution occurs and is successful, then at that particular moment
   the aspiration for freedom will have proved more powerful than
   technology.
 
   135. In paragraph 125 we used an analogy of a weak neighbor who is
   left destitute by a strong neighbor who takes all his land by forcing
   on him a series of compromises. But suppose now that the strong
   neighbor gets sick, so that he is unable to defend himself. The weak
   neighbor can force the strong one to give him his land back, or he can
   kill him. If he lets the strong man survive and only forces him to
   give his land back, he is a fool, because when the strong man gets
   well he will again take all the land for himself. The only sensible
   alternative for the weaker man is to kill the strong one while he has
   the chance. In the same way, whil

even when it is dishing out
   large amounts of sex and violence. Entertainment provides modern man
   with an essential means of escape. While absorbed in television,
   videos, etc., he can forget stress, anxiety, frustration,
   dissatisfaction. Many primitive peoples, when they don't have work to
   do, are quite content to sit for hours at a time doing nothing at all,
   because they are at peace with themselves and their world. But most
   modern people must be contantly occupied or entertained, otherwise the
   get "bored," i.e., they get fidgety, uneasy, irritable.
 
   148. Other techniques strike deeper that the foregoing. Education is
   no longer a simple affair of paddling a kid's behind when he doesn't
   know his lessons and patting him on the head when he does know them.
   It is becoming a scientific technique for controlling the child's
   development. Sylvan Learning Centers, for example, have had great
   success in motivating children to study, and psychological techniques
   are also used with more or less success in many conventional schools.
   "Parenting" techniques that are taught to parents are desi

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. Thus the bourgeois's "free" man has economic freedom
   because that promotes growth and progress; he has freedom of the press
   because public criticism restrains misbehavior by political leaders;
   he has a rights to a fair trial because imprisonment at the whim of
   the powerful would be bad for the system. This was clearly the
   attitude of Simon Bolivar. To him, people deserved liberty only if
   they used it to promote progress (progress as conceived by the
   bourgeois). Other bourgeois thinkers have taken a similar view of
   freedom as a mere means to collective ends. Chester C. Tan, "Chinese
   Political Thought in the Twentieth Century," page 202, explains the
   philosophy of the Kuomintang leader Hu Han-min: "An individual is
   granted rights because he is a member of society and his community
   life requires such rights. By community Hu meant the whole society of
   the nation." And on page 259 Tan states that according to Carsum Chang
   (Chang Chun-mai, head of the State Socialist Party in China) freedom
   had to be used in the interest of the state and of the people as a
   whole. But what kind of freedom does one have if one can use it only
   as someone else prescribes? FC's conception of freedom is not that of
   Bolivar, Hu, Chang or other bourgeois theorists. The trouble with such
   theorists is that they have made the development and application of
   socia

be, however,
   that formal regulations will tend increasingly to be replaced by
   psychological tools that make us want to do what the system requires
   of us. (Propaganda [14], educational techniques, "mental health"
   programs, etc.)
 
   115. The system HAS TO force people to behave in ways that are
   increasingly remote from the natural pattern of human behavior. For
   example, the system needs scientists, mathematicians and engineers. It
   can't function without them. So heavy pressure is put on children to
   excel in these fields. It isn't natural for an adolescent human being
   to spend the bulk of his time sitting at a desk absorbed in study. A
   normal adolescent wants to spend his time in active contact with the
   real world. Among primitive peoples the things that children are
   trained to do are in natural harmony with natural human impulses.
   Among the American Indians, for example, boys were trained in active
   outdoor pursuits -- just the sort of things that boys like. But in our
   society children are pushed into studying technical subjects, which
   most d

and risk of
   accidents? Dr. Teller saw only one side of the question. Clearly his
   emotional involvement with nuclear power arose not from a desire to
   "benefit humanity" but from a personal fulfillment he got from his
   work and from seeing it put to practical use.
 
   89. The same is true of scientists generally. With possible rare
   exceptions, their motive is neither curiosity nor a desire to benefit
   humanity but the need to go through the power process: to have a goal
   (a scientific problem to solve), to make an effort (research) and to
   attain the goal (solution of the problem.) Science is a surrogate
   activity because scientists work mainly for the fulfillment they get
   out of the work itself.
 
   90. Of course, it's not that simple. Other motives do play a role for
   many scientists. Money and status for example. Some scientists may be
   persons of the type who have an insatiable drive for status (see
   paragraph 79) and this may provide much of the motivation for their
   work. No doubt the majority of scientists, like the majority of the
   general population, are more or less susceptible to advertising and
   marketing techniques and need money to satisfy their craving for goods
   and services. Thus science is not a PURE surrogate activity. But it is
   in large part a surrogate activity.
 
 

organizations to control local communities.
 
   185. As for the negative consequences of eliminating industrial
   society -- well, you can't eat your cake and have it too. To gain one
   thing you have to sacrifice another.
 
   186. Most people hate psychological conflict. For this reason they
   avoid doing any serious thinking about difficult social issues, and
   they like to have such issues presented to them in simple,
   black-and-white terms: THIS is all good and THAT is all bad. The
   revolutionary ideology should therefore be developed on two levels.
 
   187. On the more sophisticated level the ideology should address
   itself to people who are intelligent, thoughtful and rational. The
   object should be to create a core of people who will be opposed to the
   industrial system on a rational, thought-out basis, with full
   appreciation of the problems and ambiguities involved, and of the
   price that has to be paid for getting rid of the system. It is
   particularly important to attract people of this type, as they are
   capable people and will be instrumental in influencing others. These
   pe

as an important
   psychological tool of the system, possibly even when it is dishing out
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   "Parenting" techniques that are taught to parents are designed to make
   children accept fundamental values of the system and behave in

fact that society gives it to them. What they
   need is to find or make their own opportunities. As long as the system
   GIVES them their opportunities it still has them on a leash. To attain
   autonomy they must get off that leash.
 
  HOW SOME PEOPLE ADJUST
 
 
 
   77. Not everyone in industrial-technological society suffers from
   psychological problems. Some people even profess to be quite satisfied
   with society as it is. We now discuss some of the reasons why people
   differ so greatly in their response to modern society.
 
   78. First, there doubtless are differences in the strength of the
   drive for power. Individuals with a weak drive for power may have
   relatively little need to go through the power process, or at least
   relatively little need for autonomy in the power process. These are
   docile types who would have been happy as plantation darkies in the
   Old South. (We don't mean to sneer at "plantation darkies" of the Old
   South. To their credit, most of the slaves were NOT content with their
   servitude. We do sneer at people who ARE content with servitude.)
 
   79. Some people may have some exceptional drive, in pursuing which
   they satisfy their need for the power process. For example, those who
   have an unusually strong drive for social status may spend their whole
   lives climbing the status ladder without ever getting bored with that
   game.
 
   80. People vary in their susceptibility to advertising and marketing
   techniques. Some people are so susceptible that, ev

parents whose children possess the trait will have them undergo the
   therapy. It would be inhumane to do otherwise, since the child would
   probably have a miserable life if he grew up to be a criminal. But
   many or most primitive societies have a low crime rate in comparison
   with that of our society, even though they have neither high-tech
   methods of child-rearing nor harsh systems of punishment. Since there
   is no reason to suppose that more modern men than primitive men have
   innate predatory tendencies, the high crime rate of our society must
   be due to the pressures that modern conditions put on people, to which
   many cannot or will not adjust. Thus a treatment designed to remove
   potential criminal tendencies is at least in part a way of
   re-engineering people so that they suit the requirements of the
   system.
 
   155. Our society tends to regard as a "sickness" any mode of thought
   or behavior that is inconvenient for the system, and this is plausible
   because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain
   to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the
   manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a
   "cure" for a "sickness" and therefore as good.
 
   156. In paragraph 127 we pointed out that if the use of a new item of
   technology is INITIALLY optional, it does not necessarily REMAIN
   optional, because the new technology tends to change society in such a
   way that it becomes difficult or impossible for an i