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There is no escape from tlie pre- j
sence of the machine. The grinding j
discipline that seems to affect m re- j
( temlei ill.
it lue- neither beginning nor end
ing. in i' i' light and in dark, the:
ceaseless process everywhere im- j
press, s us. It takes of our flesh and j
i loot! . i d bo u . ml inew. It d
more than command our lives. it ]
builds up our minds under tho ■
ceaseless pressure of its influence,
and compels us to act in the way j
we do.
it smashes down precedent. It!
breaks conventions. It usurps au
thority. It molds laws, opinions, in
stitutional agreements to its own
nature. It drills the human mind
along its own mechanical lines and
it establishes its own entirely novel :
scheme of civilization.
“The ubiquitous presence of the!
machine", said Vedlen, the ablest
exponent of the machine process, I
“with its spiritual concomitant—'
working ideals and scepticism ot
what is only conventionally valid—
is the unequivocal mark of the
Western culture today as contrasted
with the culture of other times and
places, it pervades all classes and j
strata in a varying degree, but on:
an average at a greater degree than
at any time in the past, and most
potently in the advanced industrial
communities and in the classes im
mediately in contact with tlie me
chanical occupation. As the com
prehensive mechanical organization j
of the material side of life has gone
on. a heightening of this .•ultural
.effect throughout the c >tninunit>
has also supervened. and with a
farther accentuation of t' is modern
coi'.ii exion of culture is fa r;.- to be
loontd for. unless some remedy if
found. -And as the co icemitant
diner;ntiation and speciaiV.ation of
occupations goes on, a still mor un
mitigated discipline falls upon ever
widening classes of the population,
resulting in an ever weakening
sense of conviction, allegiance, or
piety towards received institutions".
There lias been a marked tendency
throughout tlie pa»t decade, obvious
enough to any close observer, to
depart from "institutional lega
cies” in the form or conventional
doctrines and political theories of
natural right/*. Opposition to this
came from the higher-ups more
than any others because of the fact
that as owners and proprietors of
the machinery, the discipline of the
machine process had been entirely
different with them to what it had
been with the vast majority who
merely machine builders, tenders,
and helpers.
To employers tlie doctrine of na
tural rights, the right of property,
freedom in a pecuniary sense, or
as we say "independence”, and so
forth, still possesses for them the
same cultural attractiveness that
they presented to those who formu
lated the doctrine that these were
human rights given by God and so
obvious am manifest and self evid
ent as to be beyond the pale ot
questioning,
Tlie mere incidental fact that
even then industrial conditions
while liberating property owners
were also creating huge masses of
"dependents” upon them, did not
seem in any way a contradiction
of their opinions, nor in any
way innosistent with the doctrines
they espoused. It is the
peculiar fact about heridit
ary beliefs that no amount
of obviously contradictory experi
ences will challenge those opinions
in the minds* of the staunchest up
holders.
in fact as time went on the ma
chine has been molding two entirely
different social types: owners and
employees. And also two entirely
different types of social minds were
evolved as we see in the employers
and the employee’s point of view.
The former held firmly to the
more ancient ideas which had ori
ginated in their emancipation from
feudalism, and the establishment
of freedom along qualified lines ot
po' uuiar.e independence. The latter
mori a.,1 more rejected everything
that taib.d of self justification as a
noeets.iy in the scheme of human
thing:. K very thing from the highest |
and most sacred had to justify iis
loftiness and its sanctity by prov
ing its essentiality to human exist
ence: that society could not-proceed
as well without, as it progressed
with them. This was the machine
discipline to which the human mind
was subjected.
Hence to the first view*above all
things the most sacred is individual
initiative. Hence to the first view
the right to do uncontrolled as
ownership saw fit was the cardinal
principle of any kind of freedom.
Hence any arbitary restriction in
doing, saying, speaking, thinking,
printing, meeting, which was done
without consent freely given and
shared in by such ownership, ap
peared to be the negation of all
freedom.
This point of view adopted uncon
sciously the theory of the modern
industrial plant and its government
and applied it to the government.
Accordingly they identify govern
ment with proprietorship. Hence
they identify the nation with own
ership. Hence they make their in
terests the paramount subject of na
tional concern. and the interests
above all others , lor government
to consider.
They rightly point out the achieve
ments of the machine discipline in ]
the factory when tlie tenders and
employees are just so many me
chanical units in the entire industri
al machine. They are each to do
their appointed work: eliminating
unnecessary motions and all under
• on l rcl ot private owners who as
private owners have absolutely
freedom for themselves and the
power which is practically unlimited
over those “dependents” whom they
employ. Most interesting is it in
these days to observe the clash be
tween the conflicting viewpoints in
the national government.
Thus observation and experience
carefully cultivated by high class
specialists have evolved the notion
that the war to be best carried on.
must be carried on with as little
outside interference as possible by
a highly empowered executive. A
strongly centralized power is de
manded as the sine qua non of suc
cessful operations With a complete
subordination of all popular impul
ses and initiative.
Hence draft acts, espionage bills
and above all censorship laws are
insisted upon as of t.he first neces
sity.
The machine process further de
velops itself in this conception ol
successful polity by the co-ordinate
movements of subjective depart
ments all under a well-informed
central authority, deciding quickly,
accurately and finally without any
outside interference whatever.
Now the most striking thing about
this is that It runs as yet not count
er to the machine discipline which
has affected the minds of the mas
ses. But it does run counter to the
machine process. as it affects the
owners, and some of their devotees
in Congrtss oppose flatly and
strongly any extension of power to
an executive which they will not
share.
it is peculiar to note that oppo
sition to the program adding to,
amplifying and enlarging the exe
cutive powers come from some of
the most reactionary leaders of the
Senate. They are frankly unable
to concede any power which they
do not share, and they believe that
as they are the people the concen
tration of further power in the
hands of (he executive is reaction
ary to the core.
This exhibits the apparently para
doxical condition wherein reaction
becomes more radical than the ra
dicals themselves, and is to he ex
plained only ay the Tact that these
reactionary ‘‘radicals” have be
come so accustomed Jo identify
themselves ard their interests with
the interests of the nation and the
rountrv, they tear any extension
af power, in which they do not
share as they share in the admi
nistration of industry, is inimical
to the best interests of the nation at
large.
Throughout it ail, therefore, on
both sides, we see contrasting ef
fects of ti e machine process it.
modern industry on even govern
ment, with the varying results that
may puzzle only as long as the in
fluence of that machine process is
ignored, but never any longer.
The peculiar fact that this para
doxical condition is excited by a
war is only because a national ne
cessity was required to excite it
into being.
But we have seen tendencies,
powerful aid unmistakable, mani
fested time and again, even dur
ing peace, when the machine pro
cess and the cultural influence ot
the machine on society exerted it
self upon the ideas of the classes
jn government.
Those who were short sighted
held out the ultimate ideal of gov
ernment wherein a strong central
authority dominates public things, j
with the other factors of society i
subordinate' to this central control
as “the coming slavery” why U
would realize itself in socialism.
But it is quite apparent that it is
the ultimate ideal of capitalism and
is ultra modernism in actual effect.
Why, even when the railroad diffi
culty between companies and men
was at its height, government con
trol was argued as the final, settle
ment which was remote indeed from
any conception of socialism. The
employees were, as dependent units,
to fill their appointed positions, to
perform without hesitancy their
allotted duties for definite remune
ration which would afford them
means of livelihood ample enough
in the estimation of those in con
trol for all decent necessities.
This was an example, carried
much further and with much more
startling results in Germany, of
what was possible. But it was an
example primarily of the influence
of the machine process from the
proprietary point of view, not from
the point of view of the machine
tender which is much more icono
clastic and which as yet has not
been encountered seriously because
ignored heretofore.
How much further it may be
ignored it would be unsafe to pre
tlicl, that it may not be ignored
for much longer without great dan
ger appears extremely improbable.
This J machine influence upon the
tender is finely and accurately de
scribed by Veblen, with becomingly
deprecatory subtelty as due from a
professor of a university that owes
much to the Rockefeller family:
"The machine process gives no in
sight into questions of good and j
evil, merit or demerit, except in ■
point of material causation, not !
into into the foundations or the ]
constraining force of law and order,
except such mechanically enforced
law and order as may be stated in
terms of pressure, temperature, ve- ]
locity, tensile strength, etc. The
machine technology takes no cogni
zance of conventionally established
rules of precedence; it know s '
neither manners nor breeding and
can make no use of any attributes
of worth. Its scheme of knowledge
and of inference is based upon the
those of immemorial custom,
authenticity, and authoritative en
actment. .Its metaphysical basis is
the law of cause and effect, which
in the thinking of its adepts has
displaced the law of sufficient rea- •;
sou”.
In consequence of this the only j1
phase that evidences itself imme- j
diately is the elimination of .then
unnecessary, and the essential eon-! ]
dition to the existence of any tiling, j
power, Institution, person, authority
is that the scheme of things is bet
ter off with than without it.
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