“Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.”

— Bernard Crick

Source: In Defence Of Politics (Second Edition) – 1981, Chapter 5, A Defence Of Politics Against Technology, p. 106.

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British political theorist and democratic socialist 1929–2008

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