They change from imperative propositions (“thou shalt”) to functional if-then propositions. The commandment “thou shalt honor thy father and mother” becomes advice for use: “If you want to eat chicken soup, do this and this with the tin of chicken soup:" This steady devaluing of behavior concludes with programs. In logically constructed computer programs, there is no symbol for should. Accordingly, it becomes clear that the tendency of instructions (and of Western history as a whole) is toward a complete depoliticization of all behavior and that when this goal is achieved, human beings and their society will steer themselves automatically, like a cybernetic system.