Le Système technicien, 1977: We wish to go on living in an outmoded society with institutions, morals, a system of values rendered obsolescent by science and technique, and already nearly annihilated. We wish to hold them as valid while science and technique demonstrate that they are nothing anymore, devoid of any meaning or basis. It is by sticking to old values and refusing to recognize new values, the ethics of science (and of technique), that man makes himself unhappy. All we have to do is adopt the ethics of knowledge (first adding that of action), and everything will be all right. The discord in man, the new society created by technique, the new universe known by science will be appeased.