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Technique Has Taken Over The Whole Of Civilization. Death, Procreation, Birth All Submit To Technical Efficiency And Systemization.

I Believe That The Biblical Teaching Is Clear. It Always Contests Political Power. It Incites To "counterpower," To "positive" Criticism, To An Irreducible Dialogue (like That Between King And Prophet In Israel), To Antistatism, To A Decentralizing Of The Relation, To An Extreme Relativizing Of Everything Political, To An Anti-ideology, To A Questioning Of All That Claims Either Power Or Dominion (in Other Words, Of All Things Political), And Finally, If We May Use A Modern Term, To A Kind Of "anarchism" (so Long As We Do Not Relate The Term To The Anarchist Teaching Of The Nineteenth Century).

The Qualities Which Technique Requires For Its Advance Are Precisely Those Characteristics Of A Technical Order Which Do Not Represent Indivisual Intelligence...the Individual, In Order To Make Use Of Technical Instruments, No Longer Needs To Know About His Civilization.

This Is Where Each Individual Must Decide For Himself. The Essential Thing Is The Decision To Challenge The Modern State, Which Without This Small Group Of Protesters Will Be Checked By Neither Brake, Value, Nor Reason.

Technological Society Leads To Increasing Numbers Of People Who Cannot Adapt To The Inhuman Rhythm Of Modern Life With Its Emphasis On Specialization. A Class Of People Is Growing Up Who Are Unexploitable Because They Are Not Worth Employing Even For The Minimum Wage. Technological Progress Makes Whole Categories Of People Useless Without Making It Possible To Support Them With The Wealth Produced By The Progress.