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“Mental health” applications, “intervention” strategies, psychotherapy and so forth are ostensibly designed to benefit individuals, but in apply they often serve as methods for inducing individuals to assume and behave because the system requires. The concept of “mental health” in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the wants of the system and does so with out displaying signs of stress. 117. In any technologically superior society the individual’s destiny Must rely upon decisions that he personally can not affect to any nice extent. But most fashionable individuals should be always occupied or entertained, in any other case they get “bored,” i.e., they get fidgety, uneasy, irritable. THE ‘BAD’ Parts OF Technology Cannot be SEPARATED FROM THE ‘GOOD’ Parts 121. A further motive why industrial society can't be reformed in favor of freedom is that fashionable expertise is a unified system by which all components are dependent on each other. 118. Conservatives and a few others advocate extra “local autonomy.” Local communities as soon as did have autonomy, but such autonomy turns into much less and fewer doable as native communities grow to be more enmeshed with and dependent on giant-scale systems like public utilities, pc networks, freeway programs, the mass communications media, the modern well being care system.

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