MIND INDUSTRY
III
determination. We must know very precisely the monster we are dealing
with, and we
must
be continually on our guard to resist the overt or
subtle pressures which are brought to bear on us.
The rapid development of the mind industry, its rise to a key
position in modem society, has profoundly changed the role of the
intellectual. He finds himself confronted with new threats and new
opportunities. Whether he knows it or not, whether he likes it or not,
he has become the accomplice of a huge industrial complex which
depends for its survival on him, as he depends on it for his own. He
must try, at any cost, to use it for his own purposes, which are incom–
patible with the purposes of the mind machine. What it upholds he
must subvert. He may play it foul or straight, he may win or lose the
game; but he would do well to remember that there is more at stake
than his own fortune.
(Translated from the German
by
the author.)
An Announcement
PR is going to print several poems by one poet
in each issue-as we've been trying to do re–
cently-rather than single poems by a number
of poets. Exceptions, of course, are bound to
occur.
-The Editors
