to enable him to toelrate social conditions
  that he would otherwise find intolerable. (Yes, we know that
  depression is often of purely genetic origin. We are referring here to
  those cases in which environment plays the predominant role.)
 
  146. Drugs that affect the mind are only one example of the methods of
  controlling human behavior that modern society is developing. Let us
  look at some of the other methods.
 
  147. To start with, there are the techniques of surveillance. Hidden
  video cameras are now used in most stores and in many other places,
  computers are used to collect and process vast amounts of information
  about individuals. Information so obtained greatly increases the
  effectiveness of physical coercion (i.e., law enforcement).[26] Then
  there are the methods of propaganda, for which the mass communication
  media provide effective vehicles. Efficient techniques have been
  developed for winning elections, selling products, influencing public
  opinion. The entertainment industry serves as an important
  psychological tool of the system, possibly even when it is dishing out
  large amounts of sex and violence. Entertainment provides modern man
  with an essential means of escape. While absorbed in television,
  videos, etc., he can forget stress, anxiety, frustration,
  dissatisfaction. Many primitive peoples, when they don't have work to
  do, are quite content to sit for hours at a time doing nothing at all,
  because they are at peace with themselves and their world. But most
  modern people must be contantly occupied or entertained, otherwise the
  get "bored," i.e., they get fidgety, uneasy, irritable.
 
  148. Other techniques strike deeper that the foregoing. Education is
  no longer a simple affair of paddling a kid's behind when he doesn't
  know his lessons and patting him on the head when he does know them.
  It is becoming a scientific technique for controll