23 May 2012 @ 07:41 pm
1964  
Under the process of industrialization, differences in the forms of culture and society may give way to somewhat similar functionally rational systems. As mechanized, dehumanized systems, they can no longer provide the form for a way of life, and the human personality may be required to use itself as the form in which creative mastery is expressed. Such a possibility, however, requires that the human individual not insist that the difference he makes is recognized beyond his immediate circle of family and friends. The seed of tyranny in a rationalized world may be the insistence by force and fraud that the life of a given individual make a difference to all others. An important "right" of the future may then be the right to be left alone.