“Political society wants things simple. Political scientists know them to be complex... One could argue that, in part, the leftist impulse is so conspicuous among the educated and well-to-do precisely because they are exposed to more information, and are accordingly forced to choose between living with the strains of complexity, or lapsing into simplism.” KnowsWantWellsPoliticalSimpleInformationScientistComplexesArguingEducatedImpulseComplexityExposedStrainLeftists Book:Coping: On the Practice of Government Source: Coping: On the Practice of Government
“We live in a time when complex ethical questions are easily subordinated to the demands of efficiency, profit maximization, and maintenance or furthering of political power.” PoliticalDemandComplexesProfitEthicalEfficiencyMaintenancePolitical PowerProfit MaximizationEthical Questions Book:Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition Source: Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition
“American cities are kind of difficult contexts to work in. They are politically complex. There are a lot of different interest groups. It takes immense political skill to get anything done at all.” KindDifferentDonePoliticalDifficultInterestCitiesGroupsSkillsComplexesImmenseInterest GroupsAmerican Cities Author:William J. Mitchell
“I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination.” WorldSelfPoliticalImaginationSawsGrowingMilitaryInformationAmountEconomicsComplexesRateCensorshipPublishingCollectingMilitary Industrial ComplexSelf Censorship Author:Julian Assange