In the technological world which from now on means the world as such, since technology is a planetary phenomenon without limits, it is no longer a question of dominating nature or society in order to be more free or more happy, but of mastery for mastery's sake, of domination for the sake of domination. Why? For no end, precisely, or rather, because it is quite simply impossible to do otherwise given the nature of societies entirely governed by competition, by the absolute imperative to "advance or perish."