Source: Dime-Store Alchemy
The Apprentice, Series 1
“School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.”
“Do you like strange places and faraway people—or vice versa?”
“Both.”
Rammer (p. 4)
Short fiction, A Hole in Space (1974)
“Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.”
BBDO Newsletter (1966)
ZNet commentary (35 November 1999) http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/1999-11/25zinn.htm
Context: Why should we accept that the "talent" of someone who writes jingles for an advertising agency advertising dog food and gets $100,000 a year is superior to the talent of an auto mechanic who makes $40,000 a year? Who is to say that Bill Gates works harder than the dishwasher in the restaurant he frequents, or that the CEO of a hospital who makes $400,000 a year works harder than the nurse or the orderly in that hospital who makes $30,000 a year? The president of Boston University makes $300,000 a year. Does he work harder than the man who cleans the offices of the university? Talent and hard work are qualitative factors which cannot be measured quantitatively.
mehitabel (1959).
