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Mr. Samuel Florman
Kreisler Borg Florman Construction Company
Scarsdale, New York

Dear Mr. Florman:

	I just read with admiration your {\it Existential Pleasures of
Engineering} and {\it Blaming Technology}.  I have one comment about
anti-technology.

	On pages 8 and 9 of the latter book, you characterize anti-technology
from several points of view - theological, political, anthropological and
psychological.  It seems to me that one important political characterization
should also have been considered.

	We should also think of anti-technology as a movement or at least
as a part of a movement.  As such it has leaders, goals, alliances and
(perhaps most important) serves as a vehicle for claims to political power.
One illustration is the 1975 switch of the Sierra Club from a pro-nuclear
to an anti-nuclear position in face of the opposition of its then president
and executive director.  The alliances of the Sierra Club required this
switch.  It is this same network of allegiances and alliances that
make a member of this movement impervious to argument.  He can be persuaded
to change his arguments, but not to change his position in a way that
might require him to change his friends.

Best Regards