Tao Te Ching

“He comes to believe that political power... is the result of access to the television screen... what he wants is not more liberty as a citizen but better service as a client. He wants a better product rather than freedom from servitude to it. It is vital that he come to see that the acceleration he demands is self-defeating, and that it must result in a further decline of equity, leisure, and autonomy.”

— Ivan Illich 1926 – 2002 CE
"an archaeologist of ideas"
from Energy and Equity (1974)