#2,960

The modern world resulted from the confluence of three independent causal series: the demographic expansion, democratic propaganda, the industrial revolution.

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#2,947

The reactionary’s ideal is not a paradisiacal society. It is a society similar to the society that existed in the peaceful intervals of the old European society, of Alteuropa, before the demographic, industrial, and democratic catastrophe.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 470

#2,946

In modern society, capitalism is the only barrier to the spontaneous totalitarianism of the industrial system.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 470

#2,912

The industrialization of agriculture is stopping up the source of decency in the world.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 465

#2,824

The wealth of a merchant, of an industrialist, of a financier, is aesthetically inferior to wealth in land and flocks.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 452

#2,700

Mechanization is stultifying because it makes man believe that he lives in an intelligible universe.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 435

#2,453

A prolonged childhood—permitted by industrial society’s current prosperity—redounds merely in a growing number of infantilized adults.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 395

#2,366

It never again mattered to me where I lived after I saw the spacious, dilapidated homes pass away and the wide open, deserted fields of my infancy covered with industrial and human filth.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 383

#2,340

The man who invents a new machine invents for humanity a new concatenation of new forms of servitude.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 379

#2,336

The modern mentality’s conceptual pollution of the world is more serious than contemporary industry’s pollution of the environment.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 379

#2,328

The great industrial trade fairs are the showcase of everything civilization does not require.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 377

#2,304

The cultural rickets of our time is a result of the industrialization of culture.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 374

#2,194

The ease with which industrial capitalism constructs and destroys—obeying clear precepts of profitability—transforms the average man into an intellectual, moral, and physical nomad.
Whatever is permanent today is an obstacle.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 357

#2,181

The bourgeoisie, in the feudal framework, settles in small urban centers where it becomes structured and civilized.
With the break-up of this framework, the bourgeoisie spreads across all of society, invents the nationalist state, rationalist technology, anonymous urban agglomerations, industrial society, the mass man, and finally the process in which society wavers between the despotism of the mob and the despotism of the expert.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 355

#2,179

Leftists and rightists merely argue about who is to have possession of industrial society.
The reactionary longs for its death.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 354

#2,053

After seeing work exploit and demolish the world, laziness seems like the mother of the virtues.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 333

#1,830

The embourgeoisement of the proletariat originated in its conversion to the industrial gospel preached by socialism.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 300

#1,758

In order to make the technician devote all his attention to his job, industrial society, without disfiguring his skull, compresses his brain.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 291

#1,636

In order to cure the patient it injured in the 19th century, industrial society had to numb his mind in the 20th century.
Spiritual misery is the price of industrial prosperity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 274

#1,557

Instead of “industrial society,” it is in fashion to say “consumer society” in order to avoid the problem by pretending to confront it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 260