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Leaders: Take Away the Leaders:
“At the present moment, we could take all the machinery from all the countries around the world, all the railroad tracks, all the wires, etc., everything we call industrialization-- and we could dump this all in the ocean. Within six months two billion people would die of starvation, having endured great pain. On the other hand, supposing that we take away instead every politician, all the ideologies, all the books on politics-- and send them into orbit around the Sun. Everybody would keep on eating as before, down will go all the political barriers and we would begin to find ways in which we could send the goods that were in great surplus in one place to another. So people may even begin to eat a little better-- in a hurry. This could not be said before.”
- Cite THE YEAR 2000, reprinted in AD, Feb’67
