Today, all the normal mischances of living have been multiplied, a million-fold, by the potentialities for destruction, for an unthinking act of coll… - Lewis Mumford

On any pure theory of causality or statistical probability, organization would be completely improbable without the external aid of a divine organizer.

As opposed to [megatechnics], an organic system directs itself to qualitative richness, amplitude, spaciousness, free from quantitative pressure and crowding, since self-regulation, self-correction, and self-propulsion are as much an integral property of organisms as nutrition, reproduction, growth, and repair. Balance, wholeness, completeness, continuous interplay between inner and outer, the subjective and the objective aspects of existence are identifying characteristics of the organic model; and the general name for an economy based on such a model is an economy of plenitude.

What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?