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" At the psychological level, too, more violent verbal attacks will be made, and the discrediting of people by smear techniques, etc., will become increasingly ruthless and more general. Fantasy life will become more violent, and the trend will penetrate marriage, the home, industrial relations and so on. Violence will also become more sophisticated, and will seek to undermine not just a class but society as a whole.

Failure to curb aggressive impulses will be accompanied by failure to curb selfish and acquisitive ones, and we shall see an increase in dishonesty,pilfering, careless work, bad driving,littering and polluting, incivility and lack of consideration for others generally. It is not an attractive prospect.

When a society is sick in this way, it either breaks up , is conquered , or looks for a dictator to restore order. Thus we are on a collision course, and it is vital that we make a titanic effort to reduce the frustrations which give rise to violence, both situational elements in society and the built in aggressions which derive from poor childhoods. Unfortunately, our leaders have no inkling of this."

Rethink Gordon Rattray Taylor
Book Club Associates, London 1972 p.254