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INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY AND ITS FVTURE 151. The social disruption thaI we see today is certainly not the rtlsult of mere chance. It can only be a relult of the COnditiON of life thai. the system imposes on people. (JVe have argued thaI the most importan! of conditions is diuupdon of the power process.) If the systelllS succeeds in imposing sufficient control over hUman beh.a.viour to assure its own survival, a new watershed in human history will have pused. Whereas formerly the limits of human endurance have imposed linliu OD. the developmCllt of 5Ocictic1 (as we explained in paragraphs 143, 144), industrialtedloolopcal 50Ciety will be able to pass those limits by modifying human beings, whether by psycbologlcal methods or biological methods or wh. In the furwe, social .ystems will not be adjusted to suit the needs of human beings. Instead, human being will be adjusted to suit the. needs ofthc IYIt=L 'D 152. Genctally speaking, technological control over hUman beh.a.viour will probably not be introduced wi1.h a totalitarian intention or eYen through a conscious desire to restria human freedom. » Each new step in the assertion of control over the human mind wil1 be taken as a rational ponsc to a problem that f.ateI: society, such as curing alcobolism, reducing the crime rafe or inducing young people to lrudy science and engineering. In many C&SCIi, thertl wil1 be humanitarian justification. For example, when a psychilIrisl prescribes an anti-deprusant for a depressed patieOl, he is clearly doing that individual a favour. It would be inhumane to withhold the drug from someone who needs it. WbcD parenu send Iheir childrcD to Sylvan Learning CcIUCrS to have them manipulated into ming enthusiastic about their srudics, they do so from concern for their children's welfare. It may be that some ofthcsc parents wish that one didn't have to have specialized training to get a job and thal their kid didn have to be brainwashed into becoming a compuu:r nerd. But whaI can they do? They can't change society, and their child may be unemployable if be doesn have certain skills. So they send him to Sylvan. 153. Thus contlol. over hUman behaviour will be introduced nol by a calculated deci.liion of lhe authoritica but through a process of social evolution (RAPID evolution, however). The process will be imposable 00 sia. each advaooe, considered by iLsclf, wil1 appear 00 be beneficia!, or 11 least the evU involved in making the advance will appear to be beneficial, or aI lcu:I the evil involved in makill& the advance will lUlll to be leu than thaI which would ult from nol making it (see paRglllph 127). Pwpaganda for example is used for many good putpOseJ, such as diSCOUl'lging child abw;e or race haued. 1.\ Sex educar.ion is obviously w;cful, yet (he effea of sex. education (to the exteol: that It is .uccc.uful) is 10 take the shaping of scxual attitudes away from the family and put it i the hands ohhc state u reprcseDled by the public school sySiem. 154. SUPJH»e I blological lnit iJ diJcovcrcd that increast.l the likelihood thaI a chUd will grow up to be • cz:im.i.na1 and luppo$C some son of acne tbcn.py can remove thiJ U1Iit. 2f Of course most parents whose childxen polSCliS the trait will have them undergo the therapy. II would be inhumane 10 do otberwbe, since the child would probably have a miICl'able life if he grew up to be a criminal But many QI' 1II0Sl pd.milive SO
INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY AND ITS FUTURE psychological or biological techniques for manipulating human behavio and quite another 10 integnUC these techniques into a functioning social system. The taller problem is the mORl difficult of the [WO. For example, while the tcchniqUt:5 of educational psychology doubtless work quite well in the "tab 5choobN when:: they developed, il is nol necessarily easy 10 apply them effoclive!y th:roughout our educational synem. We all know whal many of Out schools are like. The teachen are too busy taking knives and gwu away from the kids to lubjea them to the laieSi teclutlqu for making them into computer nerds. Thus, in spite of all its technical adva.nce:s relating 10 human behaviourthc system to date hu oot been impressively successful in controlling human beings. Th
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