We are laying the foundation for some new, monstrous civilization. Only now do I realize what price was paid for building the ancient civilizations. The Egyptian pyramids, the temples and Greek statues–what a hideous crime they were! How much blood must have poured on to the Roman roads, the bulwarks, and the city walls. Antiquity–the tremendous concentration camp where the slave was branded on the forehead by his master, and crucified for trying to escape! Antiquity–the conspiracy of the free men against the slaves! .. If the Germans win the war, what will the world know about us? They will erect huge buildings, highways, factories, soaring monuments. Our hands will be placed under every brick, and our backs will carry the steel rails and the slabs of concrete. They will kill off our families, our sick, our aged. They will murder our children. And we shall be forgotten, drowned out by the voices of the poets, the jurists, the philosophers, the priests. They will produce their own beauty, virtue, and truth. They will produce religion. Tadeusz Borowski
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The article is a quote from Friedrich Nietzsche, which is a famous philosopher who wrote about the way of the future. He said that people are afraid of technology and sciences because they don't understand it. They are afraid to lose their jobs. They are afraid to be poor.

What will happen is that technology will produce new ways of producing things. People will become more organized. The machines will produce the food, the clothes, the shelter for people so they do not have to work hard anymore.

Source: This Way For The Gas, Ladies And Gentlemen

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