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| Toward a humanized technology | |
| Technology | |
| magamachine | |
| human nature | |
| Hope | |
| human well-being | |
| humanization of technology | |
| idolatry of "Future" | |
| passive waiting | |
| character structure | |
| activeness vs. busyness | |
| Faith | |
| Fortitude | |
| fearlessness | |
| resurrection | |
| alternativism | |
| Shattering of hope | |
| hardening of the heart | |
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| Man as helpless cog in a completetly mechanized society | |
| Putting technique in the service of man's well-being | |
| Forces that support the status quo | |
| cambiare recuparando il meglio del nostro passato sociale | |
| alternative alla disumanizzazione | |
| human character structure, qualities and potentialities | |
| contemporary social, political e and economic problems | |
| the system "Man" | |
| interconnetions between psychology, sociology and politics | |
| mechanized society devoted to maximum material output and consumption directed by computers | |
| disappearance of individualism and privacy | |
| psychologial conditioning | |
| exploiting the latest communication techniques to manipulate emotions and contro reason | |
| losing control over our own "system" | |
| passiveness engendered by our exclusion from responsible decision making | |
| concentration on technique and material consumption | |
| loss of capacity for deep emotional experiences, joy and sadness | |
| do strong organizations require passive individuals? | |
| average citizens do not see the dangers of the megamachine | |
| disturbances in the system Man produce imbalances in the whole social system | |
| the consumer's paradise does not deliver the happines it promised | |
| attraction to force, law and order | |
| polarization between conformists and creative people | |
| combining social change with personal change | |
| human nature vs. socioeconomic system | |
| hope's object should be a fuller life, not more consumption | |
| Marcuse alienated intellectual unrealistic, naive, without hope | |
| hope is being ready for the new | |
| unconscious repression of fear, hopelessness, greed | |
| conscious and unconscious hope and hopelessness | |
| arts are better than words for describing human experience | |
| many people are passive in spite of their busyness | |
| many people need to be prompted, turned on, temped, seduced | |
| people try to escape the anxiety that is aroused when they are confronted with themselves | |
| la speranza è collegata coi bisogni umani | |
| faith is the awareness of pregnancy, the conviction of the not yet proven | |
| faih is the vision of the present in a state of pregnancy | |
| rational and irrational faith | |
| faith in oneself | |
| Hope is the mood that accompanies faith | |
| Fortitude is the capacity to say "no" when the world wants to hear "yes". | |
| Hope and Faith transcend the status quo individually and socially | |
| resurrection is the transofrmation of this reality in the direction of greater aliveness | |
| Loss of compassion and empathy | |
| destructiveness and violence as result of shattering of hope | |
| hate of life by persons with shattered hope | |
| avenging oneself for unlived life | |
| destructiveness is the alternative to hope | |
| most of us are not aware of what we feel | |
| examination of new alternatives and options, and concerted actions to bring about the realization of these new alternatives | |
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| Pubblicato nel 1968 | |
| libri precedenti che hanno influenzato quello presente | Escape from freedom Man for himself The sane society The heart of Man |