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The Will Of The World Is Always A Will To Death, A Will To Suicide. We Must Not Accept This Suicide, And We Must So Act That It Cannot Take Place.

If The Ruler Wants To Play The Game By Himself And Follow Secret Policies, He Must Present A Decoy To The Masses. He Cannot Escape The Mass; But He Can Draw Between Himself And That Mass An Invisible Curtain, A Screen, On Which The Mass Will See Projected The Mirage Of Some Politics, While The Real Politics Are Being Made Behind It.

(propaganda) Proceeds By Psychological Manipulations, Character Modifications, By Creation Of Stereotypes Useful When The Time Comes - The Two Great Routes That This Sub-propaganda Takes Are The Conditioned Reflex And The Myth

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).

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.