Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show t…

Ivan Illich
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Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process breaks down, because people cease to be able to govern themselves; they demand to be managed. ✨ Ivan Illich (1992). In the Mirror of the Past: Lectures and Addresses, 1978-1990, Marion Boyars
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