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Speaker 0 (0s): Well, well, welcome back, everybody. Hope everyone's doing,

Speaker 1 (7s): Well breaking it out here on this Wednesday, back to our friend, the mad man in the cabin, the Harvard LSD experiment tour coming to you from the industrial society and its future. Technological Slavery. Here we go. If you remember yesterday, we kind of left off about the power process.

We left off about feelings of inferiority, how our society can over socialize us and what kind of potential psychological problems that, that leads to today. We're going to get into how some people adjust to those particular issues. Here we go. Not everyone in industrial technological society suffers from psychological problems. Some people even profess to be quite satisfied with society as it is.

We now discuss some of the reasons why people defer so greatly in their response to modern society. One beginning, interjection I often heard and where I once heard that in a society that is sick, the sickest people seem to be the most healthy. Think about that. First, there are doubtless are innate differences in the strength of the driver for power individuals, with a weak drive for power may have relatively little need to go through the power process, or at least relatively little need for autonomy in the power process.

These are docile

Speaker 0 (1m 59s):

Speaker 1 (2m 3s): At old South. We don't mean to sneer the plantation of the old South to their credit. Most of the slaves were not content with their servitude. We do sneer at people who are content with their servitude. Some people may have some exceptional drive and pursuing which they satisfy their need for the power process. For example, those who have an unusually strong dry for social status may spend their whole lives, claiming the status ladder without ever getting bored with that gain people vary in their susceptibility to advertising and marketing techniques.

Some people are so susceptible, even if they make a great deal of money, they cannot satisfy. There are constant craving for the shiny new toys and the marketing industry that

Speaker 2 (3m 0s): The marketing industry dangles before their eyes. So they always feel hard pressed financially, even if their income is large and their cravings are frustrated. Some people have low susceptibility to advertising and marketing techniques. These are the people who aren't interested in money. Material acquisition does not serve their need for the power process. People who have mediums susceptibility to advertising and marketing techniques are able to earn enough money to satisfy their craving for goods and services, but only at the cost of serious effort, putting in overtime, taking a second job, earning promotions, et cetera, thus material acquisition serves their need for the power process, but it does not necessarily follow that their need is fully satisfied.

They may have insufficient autonomy in the power of process. Their work may consist in following orders and some of their drives may be frustrated, EEG security, aggression. We are guilty of oversimplifying oversimplification because we have assumed that the desire for a material acquisition is entirely a creation of the advertising and marketing industry. Of course, it's not that simple. Some people partly satisfy their need for power by identifying themselves with a powerful organization or a man and individual lacking goals or power joined some movement or an organization adopts its goals as his own then works towards those goals.

When some of the goals are attained, the individual, even though his personal efforts have played only a insignificant part. And the attainment of those goals feels through his identification with the movement or organization as if he had gone through the power process. This phenomenon was exploited by the fascists Nazis and communists. Our society uses it to the less crudely example.

Manuel Noriega was in irritant of the U S the goal punished Noriega, the U S invaded Panama Panama effort and punish Noriega attainment of goal. The U S went through the power process and many Americans because of their identification with the us experience, the power process, vicariously hints, the widespread public approval of the Panama invasion. It gave people a sense of power.

We see the same phenomenon in armies corporations, political parties, humanitarian organizations, religious or ideological movements in particular leftist movements tend to attract people who are seeking to satisfy their need for power. But for most people identification with a large organization or a mass movement does not fully satisfy the need for power. Another way in which people satisfy their need for the power process is through surrogate activities.

As we explained in previous paragraphs, a surrogate activity is an activity that is directed toward an artificial goal that the individual pursues for the sake of the fulfillment that he gets from pursuing the goal, not because he needs to attain the goal itself. For instance, there was no practical motive for building enormous muscles, hitting a little white ball and do a whole, or acquiring a complete series of postage stamps.

Yet many people in our society. Do you vote themselves with passion to bodybuilding golf, or stamp collecting? Some people are more other directed than others, and therefore we'll more readily attach importance to a surrogate activity simply because the people around them treat it as important, or because society tells them it is important. That is why some people get very serious about essential trivial activities, such as sports or bridge or chess or arcane scholarly pursuits.

Whereas others who are more clear sighted, never see these things as anything, but the surrogate activities that they are in consequently never attach enough importance to them to satisfy their need for the power process. In that way, it only remains to point out that in many cases, a person's way of earning a living is also a surrogate activity, not a pure surrogate activity. Since part of the motive for the activity is to gain the physical necessities.

And for some people social status in the luxuries that advertising makes them want. But many people put in to their work, far more effort than is necessary to earn whatever money and status they require. And this extra effort constitutes a surrogate activity, this extra effort together with the emotional investment that accompanies it is one of the most potent forces acting towards the continual development and perfecting of the system with a negative consequences for individual freedom, especially for the most creative scientists and engineers work tends to be largely a surrogate activity at this point is so important that it deserves a separate discussion, which we will give in a moment in this session, we have explained how many people in modern society do satisfy

Speaker 1 (8m 56s): Their need for the power process to a greater or lesser extent. But we think that for the majority of people, the need for the power process is not fully satisfied in the first place. Those who have an insatiable drive for status or who get firmly hooked on a surrogate activity, or who identify strongly enough with a movement or an organization to satisfy their need for power in that way are exceptional personalities.

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