# Authoritarian and Democratic Technics

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: [[Lewis Mumford]]

> While 'democratic' technics, available to small communities, may be neutral, 'authoritarian' technics, available only to large-scale, hierarchical, authoritarian, societies, are not. Such technics are not only unsustainable, but 'are driving planetary murder'.
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> – [Lewis Mumford - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Mumford)