Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!lnewsoutpeer01.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!lnewsinpeer01.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!bnewsoutpeer01.bru.ops.eu.uu.net!bnewsinpeer01.bru.ops.eu.uu.net!bnewspost00.bru.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!read.news.fr.uu.net!not-for-mail From: HOURIN Hiroyuki Subject: Re: =?ISO-2022-JP?B?S08yMDA0GyRCJTslXyVKITwbKEIoGyRCOEQ/TT5wSnMbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCSl04bkshGyhCKQ==?= Approved: HOURIN Hiroyuki Newsgroups: japan.ad.announce,japan.town.osaka References: <86u0szfr1t.fsf@doublearm.suplex.gr.jp> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 04:40:56 GMT Organization: Japan sUplex Society Message-ID: <03a0yede5i.fwf@doublearm.suplex.gr.jp> User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.3 (FreeBSD) Followup-To: news.admin.net-abuse.email Lines: 18 NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.11.11.229 X-Trace: 1103012763 read.news.fr.uu.net 3515 213.11.11.229:2098 X-Complaints-To: abuse@fr.uu.net Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org japan.ad.announce:416 japan.town.osaka:10 ever-increasing demands will be placed; They will need more and m ore training, more and more ability, and will have to be ever more reliable, conforming and docile, because they will be more and more like cells of a giant organism. Their tasks will be increasingly specialized so that their work will be, in a sense, out of touch with the real world, being concentrated on one tiny slice of reality. The system will have to use any means that I can, whether psychological or biological, to engineer people to be docile, to have the abilities that the system requires and to "sublimate" their drive for power into some specialized task. But the statement that the people of such a society will have to be docile may require qualification. The society may find competitiveness useful, provided that ways are found of directing competitiveness into channels that serve that needs of the system. We can imagine into channels that serve the needs of the system. We can imagine a future society in which there is endless competition for positions of prestige an power. But no more than a