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Design Revolution: Pulling the Bottom Up Sequence:
“how it’s very evident to everybody that not only were the poor people illiterate and ill-clothed, and so forth, but they were also quite dumb. They seemed to be dumb. That was one thing that hurt me very much when I was a kid: I was brought up with this class thing, this hereditary supremacy. And I didn’t think it was so but I couldn’t get over this thing that confronted me: that poor people seemed to be dumb. I worked with them and loved them; but they were dumb. I was trying to help them because they seemed to be so dumb. I think Karl Marx accepted this very much; so he gave you class warfare. These people, while they were the fittest in their dumbness, it didn’t bother them to give in to the nobles. They simply had an innate capability with the seed, as they had an innate capability to make babies. So he didn’t discount their capability because they were dumb. So here was class warfare: where they were dumb and you had to work out something to save them. You had to have a very powerful party and powerful rules so the dogma of communism was made very powerful. People absolutely had to follow the rules. Never mind about thinking, because they don’t think. Every once in a while there was a genius born among these poor people and he does some good thinking; and he codifies what you ought to do to look out for the people. That really was the”
