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service of the “best” people who have received the “best” education.
In the immortal words of Robert McNamara:
Management is in the end the most creative of all the arts for
its medium is human talent itself. The real threat to democracy
comes . . . from undermanagement . . . To undermanage reality is
not to keep it free. It is simply to let some force other than reason
shape reality.
(from The Essence of Security [1968],
quoted in Chomsky [2005 (1970)]: 51)
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