The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
— Karl Marx

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows
anything about science and technology.
— Carl Sagan

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
— Aldous Huxley

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
— Ambrose Bierce

Agriculture, the indispensable basis of civilization, was originally encountered as time, language, number and art won out. As the materialization of alienation, agriculture is the triumph of estrangement and the definite divide between culture and nature and humans from each other.
— John Zerzan, Agriculture, The Demon Engine of Civilation

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