Desintegration
The very dynamism of megatechnics, its seemingly endless resourcefulness in concocting technocratic answers to human problems, has blinded its governors tot the nature of these contrary reactions. Hence the orthodox remedy for discontent – the Welfare State’s variants of ‘bread and circuses’ – only aggravates the disease. Unfortunately, just as in the body there is no tissue that shows a more extraordinary capacity for rapid growth than cancer cells, so in the body politic, the disintegration and destruction that has been going on with cumulative force for halve a century now threaten to outpace the productive mechanism and even undermine the principles of cosmic order and rational cooperation upon which its genuine constructive achievements have in fact been based.
Lewis Mumford, The Pentagon of Power, 347.
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