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Design Revolution: Pulling the Bottom Up Sequence:
"The changes taking place are very unfamiliar to everybody, even those who expect change. And these elderly people have-- all of them-- probably given themselves in very big ways, very generous and very dedicated ways; but they are baffled and afraid. And I think it’s unnecessary. That’s one of the things I’m absolutely convinced of.
"In terms of yesterday’s misconceptions there wasn’t enough to go around and somebody had to go down: you really did pull the top down. I’m now absolutely convinced we must pull the bottom up and not lower standards.
“One of the most interesting fundamental discoveries I’ve made relates to that. When Malthus, as an economist, received his data he was the first economist receiving total data from the total Earth as a closed system. And he found that apparently people were reproducing themselves more rapidly than they were producing goods. And then Darwin followed with his explanation of evolution as survival of only the fittest. These two compounded. Not only did the masses of these men agree that all this was correct, but they said that they were the fittest.”
