PAUL G.
 
It makes to say that the conditions of modern society are "dehumanizing".

The evidence seems to be that actual fright can lastingly alter behavior, but mere
institutional threats, conditioning, and brainwashing are ineffectual.

Social and technological conditions do determine behavior in every detail;
the way they lay out the streets is the way we must walk.

Social science deals with the tension between people and personnel,
between human powers and human institutions.

My subject is the breakdown of belief, and the emergence of new belief,
in sciences and professions, education, and civil legitimacy.

It is evident that, at present, we are not going to give up the mass faith in scientific
technology that is the religion of modern times; and yet we cannot continue with it,
as it has been perverted.

....In its fanaticism and self-righteous violence,....

....I have been sickened by the Whore of Babylon...

Their intolerance is breathtaking. Do Your Thing means do their thing.

These are the rationalizing, abstract universalizing, grading, and isolation of individuals, Phariseeism, and economism that in modern times have infected the organization of sciences, work, and society, destroying community,traditional culture, animality, and real wealth.

With science the other professions are discredited.

I do not mean that we will turn away from science. .... the question is a different one: Is it viable?
Can it be made viable?

Often it is pretty clear that a technology has been oversold, like cars. Then even though the public, seduced by advertising, wants more, technologists must balk, as any proessional does when his client wants what isn't good for him.

.....since we are technologically overcommitted.....

without moral philosophy, people have nothing but sentiments.