"Especially relevant to present-day problems is the.. contention that industrial organisation, by its very nature, gives rise to oligarchy or dictatorship.. tending to destroy democracy.. and to impose upon the individual pressures and restraints that prevent his full life as a human being.. leading to trivial pursuits and passivity.. collective #rage and #hysteria."
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.59284
#BertrandRussel #IndustrialCivilization #HumanScale #HumanPace #workrhythm #activityrhythm