The Social Disruption We See Today

151. The social disruption that we see today is certainly not the result of mere chance. It can only be a result of the conditions of life that the system imposes on people. (We have argued that the most important of these conditions is disruption of the power process.) If the systems succeeds in imposing sufficient control over human behavior to assure its own survival, a new watershed in human history will have been passed. Whereas formerly the limits of human endurance have imposed limits on the development of societies (as we explained in paragraphs 143, 144), industrial- technological society will be able to pass those limits by modifying human beings, whether by psychological methods or biological methods or both. In the future, social systems will not be adjusted to suit the needs of human beings. Instead, human being will be adjusted to suit the needs of the system. [27]

A photograph of a monitor displays paragraph 151 from *Industrial Society and Its Future*, discussing how technological society may control and modify human behavior to serve the system. The joke is the bleak, dystopian implication of the passage, commonly shared as an alarmist or darkly ironic reaction to modern social control and technology. EN: A photograph of a monitor displays paragraph 151 from *Industrial Society and Its Future*, discussing how technological society may control and modify human behavior to serve the system. The joke is the bleak, dystopian implication of the passage, commonly shared as an alarmist or darkly ironic reaction to modern social control and technology.

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