Klein Naomi Many of the young Czechs I met this week say that their direct experience with communism and capitalism has taught them that the two systems have something in common: they both centralize power in the hands of a few, and they both treat people as if they are less than fully human. Where communism saw them only as potential producers, capitalism sees them only as potential consumers.... (p 35) Klein, Naomi (2002)


Jones, James M. In the business world, as in the world of families and individuals, federal intervention is just enough to give the impression of "doing something" but, in too many cases, is not enough to really make a long-term difference. Institutional racism continues as a legacy of historical disadvantage and continued bias such that minority group people gain expanded access to lesser or softer positions in the nation's economy, are hurt worse by economic fluctuations, and now are threatened with a wholesale loss of those positions gained through expanded federal machinery. (p 38) Jones, James M. (1981) in Benjamin, B. and Hunt, R. (eds) Impacts of Racism on White Americans, pp 27-49. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications.

Symons D [On the use and misuse of Darwinism in the study of human behavior:] Large-brained hominids with advanced tool technologies have existed for more than one million years....For over 99 percent of this period humans lived in small nomadic groups without domesticated plants or animals. This hunting and gathering way of life is the only stable, persistent adaptation humans have ever achieved...it is generally agreed that insufficient time has elapsed since the invention of agriculture 10,000 years ago for significant change to have occurred in human gene pools....Humans can thus be said to be genetically adapted to a hunting and gathering way of life...(p 35) Symons D (1992) In Barkow J. H, Cosmides L, Tooby J (eds) The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture, pp 137-162. Oxford: Oxford University Press.


Orwell George Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. The Party intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered; he therefore knows that he is playing tricks with reality; but by the exercise of doublethink he also satisfies himself that reality is not violated. The process has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt. ( Orwell, 1969 p 215). [Page number refers to the reprint edition]


Seneca Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. -- Seneca the Younger (4? B.C. - 65 A.D.)

Takaki, Ronald, Reflections on Racial Patterns in America; An Historical Perspective. A physician, (Benjamin) Rush prescribed a "cure" for the sick Negro: "Depletion, whether by bleeding, purging, or abstinence has been often observed to lessen the black color in negroes. The effects of the above remedies in curing the common leprosy, satisfy me that they might be used with advantage in that state of leprosy which I conceive to exist in the skin of negroes." But until they could be "cured," Dr. Rush recommended an interim separation of the two races. "The facts and principles which have been delivered," he warned, "should teach white people the necessity of keeping up that prejudice against such connections with them (Negroes), as would tend to infect posterity with any portion of their disorder."  (University of California, Berkeley. p. 15)