A more irrational reaction to the impersonality of modern organizations is the growth of a spirit of regression to a simpler technology and hence simpler organization forms. Even as the British textile workers of the early nineteenth century followed "General Ludd" in his destruction of new labor-saving technology, many today wish to blame science and technology not only for such problems as pollution but also for the alienation, the frustration and despiration of the individual. (I should say "some individuals" since most, I suspect, are doing very well.) Commitment to this position seems to be associated with fanaticism, with the charisma of a "movement," and as such it shows a tendency to follow the ancient fallacy that the end justifies the means.

Victor A. Thompson Without Sympathy or Enthusiasm, 1975. p32.

[This picks up a theme mentioned elsewhere on this web site.]

continuing:

.... The 1970 and 1971 annual meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science were disrupted several times by groups who had defined the enemy as a personified "science" and blamed it for everything from human failure to racial prejudice to war. But if scientists are moving in the wrong direction, it is because they are allowing bureaucrats, politicians, college administrators, and private Luddite groups* to define that direction, to push their research in directions contrary to their scientific instincts**.

*Let's not forget business, the military, and The Party.

**As if there were such a thing.