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Not only is the Napoleonic dream stronger today in our imaginations than it has ever been, but one can already feel the slow falling away…

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The acceptance of corporatism causes us to deny and undermine the legitimacy of the individual as citizen in a democracy. The result…
An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined.
The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert…
Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals…
A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service…
The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet…
The Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the…
I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good…
Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that…
Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.
All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the…
In general, democracy and individualism have advanced in spite of and often against specific economic interest. Both democracy and individualism have been…

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