[1] Quoted by Sir Karl Popper in vol 1 of The Open Society and its Enemies (5th ed), pg 102.
[2] In The Open Society and its Enemies, 5th ed, Vol I, The Spell of Plato, Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1966, Popper wrote on pg 88 -- "the idealization of the great idealist permeates not only the interpretation of Plato's writings, but also the translations. Drastic remarks of Plato's which do not fit the translator's views of what a humanitarian should say are frequently either toned down or misunderstood. This tendency begins with the very title of Plato's so-called 'Republic.' What comes first to our mind on hearing this title is that the author must be a liberal, if not a revolutionary. But the title 'Republic' is, quite simply, the English form of the Latin rendering of a Greek word that had no associations of this kind, and whose proper translation would be 'The Constitution' or 'The City State' or 'The State.' The traditional translation 'The Republic' has undoubtedly contributed to the general conviction that Plato could not have been a reactionary.
[3] Charles Van Doren, A History of Knowledge, Ballantine Books, NY, 1991, pg 38.
[5] Rene Descartes, On Method, Trans by Paul J Olscamp, Library of Liberal Arts, Indianapolis, NY, 1965, pg 49.
[6] Alvin Toffler, The Third Wave, Bantam, 7th printing, August/82, pg 29.
[7] Maritza Aminita Jonas, Learned helplessness, the hospital setting as a conditioning paradigm, abstract from a 1979 dissertation, published by University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor MI, 1983.
[10] Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich, translated by Richard and Clara Winston, Galahad Books, NY, 1970, pg 253.
[11] I do not suggest that we should not be 'team players,' but I do suggest that we should be aware of which team we play for.
[12] In most cases, of course, we rationalize that we work for money to support our families. This is generally true, but many of us work more than is required to support our families.
[13] Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society, Harper & Row Perennial, New York, 1972.
[14] Modern business schools have the extra advantage that they train and encourage students to take a mechanistic, opportunistic and anti-human attitude toward their service to The System. For a worrisome, but all too familiar view of this, read Stephen Rhoads, The Economist's View of the World, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1985.
[15] This is said to be Keynes' most famous quote, but it's also one of the hardest to track down. The reason is that it's in the 1936 and 1947 editions of The General Theory but, apparently, not in later editions. It's possible that Keynes changed his mind but more likely that his publisher reacted to the yowls of outraged academics, and considered the possible effect on the acceptance of Keynes' work as course texts.
[16] If they did find jobs in the modern world they might not be able to keep them, because these, and other great innovators, all had more initiative and independence than modern employers like -- especially in the kind of employees that get their hands dirty.
[17] Americans learned this in the 1970's when they discovered that American cars, which they thought were the best is the world, were in fact below world standard in quality and performance. American cars are now much better, but one of the three surviving auto makers is now foreign-owned and even most Americans now consider the best European and Japanese cars to be better than the best American cars.
[18] John Kenneth Galbraith, foreward to the revised third edition of The New Industrial State, New American Library, 1979, pg xi.
[19] John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society, second ed, 1970, New American Library, 1979, pp 33-42.
[20] John Maynard Keynes, The general theory of employment, interest and money, pg 158 in the 1970 reprint by St. Martin's Press, London.
[21] While cooperation seems to be inherent for individuals, logic suggests that systems would not be cooperative because, as mentioned earlier, they are cannibalistic. One system can and will take over and absorb another and, while it is good policy to cooperate with a neighbor it is not good policy to cooperate with a predator who may eat you.
[22] Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel - The Fate of Human Societies, W. W. Norton and Co, NY, 1999, pg 143.
[23] In many countries, people who were born and raised in simple farming or even hunting and gathering cultures are now working with modern machines or, in some cases, designing and building them. At one magazine I worked for the computer operator who set our type and formatted the pages had been raised in a remote village in Greece and, he said, he did not have shoes until he was 15 years old. Even among dedicated and highly-trained anthropologists and explorers, few people raised in modern cultures have learned to live as hunters and gatherers.
[24] Terry Pratchett, The Hogfather, Corgi edition, London, 1997, pg 220.