This "growth" is the overriding purpose of the "global economy" which the Machine has built: everything else is of secondary concern. The growth has no specific aim and no end in sight, and can always be justified by pointing to problems - poverty, environmental degradation - which were in many case caused by the growth, but which can now only be solved by more of it. It is facilitated by the production and consumption of goods and services, the desire (or 'need') for which has been manufactured by vast marketing and advertising concerns whose best minds are trained in the essence of psychological manipulation. The rise and triumph of the internet - the neurological network of the Machine
(Paul Kingsnorth in his book Against the Machine⤴)
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- I've learnt a lot from the book Understanding Power by Chomsky