1) ′′To stifle any uprising in advance, one should not make it violent. The methods like Hitler are outdated. One simply has to create such powerful collective conditioning that the idea of insurrection does not even occur to people anymore."
2) "The ideal would be to format individuals from birth by limiting their innate biological abilities. Then conditioning would continue and education would be drastically reduced to bring them back into a form of professional integration. An uneducated individual..." ...
3) "...has only a limited horizon of thought and the more his thinking is limited to mediocre concerns, the less he can resist. Access to knowledge must become increasingly difficult and elitist. May the gap between the people and science widen, ..."
4) "...may the information for the general public be numbed with subversive content.
Above all, no philosophy. Here, too, persuasion and not direct violence must be used: via television, conversations are broadcast massively, always emotional or instinctive."
Above all, no philosophy. Here, too, persuasion and not direct violence must be used: via television, conversations are broadcast massively, always emotional or instinctive."
5) "Thoughts are made with the senseless and playful sense. It is good to keep the mind from thinking in incessant entertainment and music. Sexuality is put in the first place of human interests. As a social tranquilizer there is nothing better."
6) "Normally, the seriousness of existence is banished, everything of high value is twisted into mockery, a constant apology of lightness is cultivated; so that the euphoria of advertising becomes the standard human happiness and the model of freedom."
7) "The packaging will bring about such integration that the only fear - which must be cultivated - will be to be excluded from the system and thus no longer have access to the conditions for happiness."
8) "The mass human being produced in this way must be treated as it is: a calf and must be monitored like a herd. Anything that can put his clarity to sleep is socially good; anything that threatens to wake him up must be ridiculed, suffocated and fought against."
9) "Any doctrine that challenges the system must first be described as subversive and terrorist, and those who support it must then be treated as such."
Günther Anders, ′′The Obsolescence of Man" 1956
Günther Anders, ′′The Obsolescence of Man" 1956
