To Be Ignorant Or Unconvinced Of One's

The Household Became The Place Where The Consumption Of Wages Takes Place.

Even If Nonpolluting Power Were Feasible And Abundant, The Use Of Energy On A Massive Scale Acts On Society Like A Drug That Is Physically Harmless But Psychically Enslaving. A Community Can Choose Between Methadone And "cold Turkey"-between Maintaining Its Addiction To Alien Energy And Kicking It In Painful Cramps-but No Society Can Have A Population That Is Hooked On Progressively Larger Numbers Of Energy Slaves And Whose Members Are Also Autonomously Active.

To Be Ignorant Or Unconvinced Of One's Own Needs Has Become The Unforgivable Anti-social Act. The Good Citizen Is One Who Imputes Standardized Needs To Himself With Such Conviction That He Drowns Out Any Desire For Alternatives, Much Less The Renunciation Of Need.

A Low-energy Policy Allows For A Wide Choice Of Life-styles And Cultures. If, On The Other Hand, A Society Opts For High Energy Consumption, Its Social Relations Must Be Dictated By Technocracy And Will Be Equally Degrading Whether Labeled Capitalist Or Socialist.

To Deschool Means To Abolish The Power Of One Person To Oblige Another.