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| Source | Laura McCall |
| Date | 00/09/24/22:25 |
| From Richard White, _The Organic Machine_ (Hill & Wang, 1995), p. 64. "Planning is an exercise of power, and in a modern state much real power is suffused with boredom. The agents of planning are usually boring; the planning process is boring; the implementation of plans is always boring. In a democracy boredom works for bureaucracies and corporations as smell works for a skunk. It keeps danger away. Power does not have to be exercised behind the scenes. It can be open. The audience is asleep. The modern world is forged amidst our inattention." |
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