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Design Revolution: Pulling the Bottom Up Sequence:
"way it was happening. It was very fundamental after the revolution that the leaders of the communist party must be followed automatically because you’re going to pull the top down; and your people are dumb and there have to be standards and you stick to those standards. Therefore you wear very baggy and stupid clothes; and that’s really an accoutrement to these people because they also are unaesthetic, and coarse. And if you wear coarse clothes and are unaesthetic, you don’t put on any nonsense. A great many young people were feeling tremendously simpatico with this ideal-- as I did at Harvard. They’d like to join up with the underdog and therefore they’d wear his clothes. They wanted to be coarse and give up their good standard of living, or whatever it might be.
“Well, it is just in the past 10 years that we’ve had the first scientific proof that malnutrition during the child’s time in the womb-- his gestation period, and during the first four years of life-- causes permanent brain damage. And so this dumbness is purely the damaged brain of malnutrition. Now this is a very important matter; what I’m saying. It has an enormous amount to do with the proliferation of new methods-- new methods of not just gaining energy impoundmentby agriculture and by nature’s own”
