[...T]he need for proof becomes increasingly strong as the pragmatics of scientific knowledge replaces traditional knowledge or knowledge based on revelation. [...] A new problem appears: devices that optimize the performance of the human body for the purpose of producing proof [= Technologie; meine Anmerkung] require additional expenditures. No money, no proof - and that means no verification of statements and no truth. The games of scientific language become the games of the rich, on which whoever is wealthiest hast the best chance of being right. An equation between wealth, efficiency, and truth is thus established.
J.-F. Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, 1979, hier zitiert aus: Lawrecne Cahoone (Hrsg.), From Modernism to Postmodernism: An Anthology. Oxford: Blackbury, 1996, S. 496.
