The Medical Establishment Has Become The Major

The Future Depends More Upon Our Choice Of Institutions Which Support A Life Of Action Than On Our Developing New Ideologies And Technologies.

Losses Of A Kind Of Satisfaction That Have No Market Equivalent Don't Show Up In The Calculations Of Economists.

Traditional Society Was More Like A Set Of Concentric Circles Of Meaningful Structures, While Modern Man Must Learn How To Find Meaning In Many Structures To Which He Is Only Marginally Related. In The Village, Language And Architecture And Religion And Work And Family Customs Were Consistent With One Another, Mutually Explanatory And Reinforcing. To Grow Into One Implied A Growth Into Others.

The Knowledge Of The Individual Citizen Is Of Less Value Than The Knowledge Of Science. The Former Is The Opinion Of Individuals. It Is Merely Subjective And Is Excluded From Policies. The Latter Is Objective - Defined By Science And Promulgated By Expert Spokesmen. This Objective Knowledge Is Viewed As A Commodity Which Can Be Refined... And Fed Into A Process, Now Called Decision-making. This New Mythology Of Governance By The Manipulation Of Knowledge-stock Inevitably Erodes Reliance On Government By People.

The Medical Establishment Has Become The Major Threat To Health.