Stanislaw LEM. The Voice Of The Lord (№ 303019)

The scientist is likened to a trained elephant, which the driver has set a barrier. He uses the power of the mind is like an elephant - the power of muscles, obeying orders. It is extremely comfortable: the scientist is now ready to do anything because no that is not responding. Science becomes the order of the defeatists; logical calculating machine that replaces human morality; we give in to the blackmail of the "higher reasons" that de nuclear war may be indirectly beneficent, as derived from arithmetic. What is considered evil today, tomorrow may be good, and this is what evil itself is, in a way good. Mind shrugs off the intuitive prompts of emotions; harmony of the ideal machine is built in the model for civilization and each individual.
Means of civilization declared goals, the higher values are exchanged for convenience. Considerations of convenience, on which the tube in the bottle are replaced with metal caps, and those, in turn, is a plastic, bounce when pressed with your finger, themselves completely innocent, but in person they become pure madness, any conflict, any problem like not very convenient traffic, which should be fired and replaced with something more comfortable.