The fundamental question of radical politics has always been, why do the people obey unjust authority? Sometimes the answer is as obvious as the threat of starvation or a bayonet held at the throat. But not always...There are far subtler, more effective forms of power. Those who reside in the mainstream of the technocratic society obey because they are trapped in a diminished reality which not only closes out their vision of 'realistic' alternatives, but persuades them that discontent about anything other than superficial inconvenience is inadmissible, a sign of unfortunate maladjustment or failure of reason.--Theodore Roszak