The technocratic imperative: "What can be done must be done." — Theodore Roszak · Skopia

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The technocratic imperative: "What can be done must be done."

Theodore Roszak

The Making of the Counter Culture · 1969

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Roszak, Theodore. The Making of the Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society. Doubleday & Co., 1969, appendix.

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