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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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