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Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power.

Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power.

John Kenneth Galbraith
Drinking, Commitment, Dope

A drastic reduction in weapons competition following a general release from the commitment to the Cold War would be sharply in conflict with the needs of the industrial system.

John Kenneth Galbraith
War, Commitment, Competition
John Kenneth Galbraith (1971). “The new industrial state”, Houghton Mifflin

We live surrounded by a systematic appeal to a dream world which all mature, scientific reality would reject. We, quite literally, advertise our commitment to immaturity, mendacity and profound gullibility. It is as the hallmark of the culture. And it is justified as being economically indispensable.

John Kenneth Galbraith
Dream, Commitment, Reality
John Kenneth Galbraith (2001). “The Essential Galbraith”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy of judgement and intuition. . .

John Kenneth Galbraith
Commitment, Math, Exercise

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