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The quote comes from Kaczynski's Industrial Society and Its Future (ISAIF) paragraph 145.

>Imagine a society that subjects people to condi-tions that make them terribly unhappy, then gives themdrugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction? Itis already happening to some extent in our own society. Itis well known that the rate of clinical depression has beengreatly increasing in recent decades. We believe that thisis due to disruption of the power process, as explainedin paragraphs 59-76. But even if we are wrong, the in-creasing rate of depression is certainly the result of SOMEconditions that exist in today’s society. Instead of remo-ving the conditions that make people depressed, modernsociety gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect, antide-pressants are a means of modifying an individual’s inter-nal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate socialconditions that he would otherwise find intolerable. (Yes,we know that depression is often of purely genetic origin.We are referring here to those cases in which environmentplays the predominant role.)

Here is the PDF. http://editions-hache.com/essais/pdf/kaczynski2.pdf

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Thats some interesting breaking up of words to better reveal their meaning. "Antidepressant" reveals it's inherent retardation when the double negative prefix is highlighted.