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   be adapted to it through a long an painful   
      process of natural selection. The former is far more likely that the   
      latter.   
      
      179. It would be better to dump the whole stinking system and take the   
      consequences.   
      
     STRATEGY   
      
      
      
      180. The technophiles are taking us all on an utterly reckless ride   
      into the unknown. Many people understand something of what   
      technological progress is doing to us yet take a passive attitude   
      toward it because they think it is inevitable. But we (FC) don't think   
      it is inevitable. We think it can be stopped, and we will give here   
      some indications of how to go about stopping it.   
      
      181. As we stated in paragraph 166, the two main tasks for the present   
      are to promote social stress and instability in industrial society and   
      to develop and propagate an ideology that opposes technology and the   
      industrial system. When the system becomes sufficiently stressed and   
      unstable, a revolution against technology may be possible. The pattern   
      would be similar to that of the French and Russian Revolutions. French   
      society and Russian society, for several decades prior to their   
      respective revolutions, showed increasing signs of stress and   
      weakness. Meanwhile, ideologies were being developed that offered a   
      new world view that was quite different from the old one. In the   
      Russian case, revolutionaries were actively working to undermine the   
      old order. Then, when the old system was put under sufficient   
      additional stress (by financial crisis in France, by military defeat   
      in Russia) it was swept away by revolution. What we propose in   
      something along the same lines.   
      
      182. It will be objected that the French and Russian Revolutions were   
      failures. But most revolutions have two goals. One is to destroy an   
      old form of society and the other is to set up the new form of society   
      envisioned   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)