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Simone de Beauvoir: "Apa pun negara, kapitalis atau sosialis, manusia...

"Apa pun negara, kapitalis atau sosialis, manusia di mana-mana dihancurkan oleh teknologi, membuat orang asing dengan pekerjaannya sendiri, dipenjara, dipaksa kebodohan. Kejahatan semua muncul dari fakta bahwa ia telah meningkatkan kebutuhannya daripada membatasi mereka; . . . Selama kebutuhan baru terus diciptakan, maka frustrasi baru akan muncul. Kapan penurunan dimulai? Pengetahuan hari itu lebih disukai daripada kebijaksanaan dan hanya kegunaan untuk keindahan. . . . Hanya revolusi moral - bukan revolusi sosial atau politik - hanya revolusi moral yang akan membawa manusia kembali ke kebenarannya yang hilang."

--- Simone de Beauvoir

Versi Bahasa Inggris

Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity. The evil all arose from the fact that he had increased his needs rather than limited them; . . . As long as fresh needs continued to be created, so new frustrations would come into being. When had the decline begun? The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution - not a social or political revolution - only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.