"Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one."
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Chapter 5, A Defence Of Politics Against Technology, p. 106.
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Bernard Crick
Sir Bernard Rowland Crick (16 December 1929 – 19 December 2008) was a British political theorist and democratic socialist whose views were often summarised as "politics is ethics done in public". He sought to arrive at a "politics of action", as opposed to a "politics of thought" or of ideology.
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