“And then there are unthinking, animal types who seem to be satisfied with a purely physical sense of power (the good combat soldier, who gets his sense of power by developing fighting skills that he is quite content to use in blind obedience to his superiors).”

—  Theodore Kaczynski , book Industrial Society and Its Future

"Autonomy", item 43
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)

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