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do satisfy their need for the power process to a greater or
   lesser extent. But we think that for the majority of people the need
   for the power process is not fully satisfied. In the first place,
   those who have an insatiable drive for status, or who get firmly
   "hooked" or a surrogate activity, or who identify strongly enough with
   a movement or organization to satisfy their need for power in that
   way, are exceptional personalities. Others are not fully satisfied
   with surrogate activities or by identification with an organization
   (see paragraphs 41, 64). In the second place, too much control is
   imposed by the system through explicit regulation or through
   socialization, which results in a deficiency of autonomy, and in
   frustration due to the impossibility of attaining certain goals and
   the necessity of restraining too many impulses.
   
   86. But even if most people in industrial-technological society were
   well satisfied, we (FC) would still be opposed to that form of
   society, because (among other reasons) we consider it demeaning to
   fulfill one's need for the power process through surrogate activities
   or through identification with an organization, rather then through
   pursuit of real goals.
   
  THE MOTIVES OF SCIENTISTS
  
   
   
   87. Science and technology provide the most important examples of
   surrogate activities. Some scientists claim that they are motivated by
   "curiosity," that notion is simply absurd. Most scientists work on
   highly specialized problem that are not the object of any normal
   curiosity. For example, is an astronomer, a mathematician or an
   entomologist curious ab

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