The Machine Is A Tool. But It

Mass Media Provides The Essential Link Between The Individual And The Demands Of The Technological Society.

If Man--if Each One Of Us--abdicates His Responsibilities With Regard To Values; If Each One Of Us Limits Himself To Leading A Trivial Existence In A Technological Civilization, With Greater Adaptation And Increasing Success As His Sole Objectives; If We Do Not Even Consider The Possibility Of Making A Stand Against These Determinants, Then Everything Will Happen As I Have Described It, And The Determinates Will Be Transformed Into Inevitabilities.

Thinking Has Become A Superfluous Exercise... Purely Internal, Without Compelling Force, More Or Less A Game.

Education No Longer Has A Humanist End Or Any Value In Itself; It Has Only One Goal, To Create Technicians.

There Is A Limited Elite That Understands The Secrets Of Their Own Techniques, But Not Necessarily Of All Techniques. These Men Are Close To The Seat Of Modern Governmental Power. The State Is No Longer Founded On The 'average Citizen', But On The Ability And Knowledge Of This Elite. The Average Man Is Altogether Unable To Penetrate Technical Secrets Or Governmental Organization And Consequently Can Exert No Influence At All On The State.