Alan: The only time I met Illich, he reprimanded me.
I think he's a genius, an intellectual titan.
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If conviviality is reduced below a certain level, no amount of industrial productivity can effectively satisfy "the needs" it creates among society's members. Ivan Illich paraphrase
Gangsters, for their own profit, corner a basic necessity by controlling supplies. Educators and doctors and social workers today...gain legal power to create the need that, by law, they alone will be allowed to serve. Ivan Illich
Abundance breeds waste. Ivan Illich
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Ivan Illich
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Illich
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Great Illich Webpage
http://backpalm.blogspot.com/
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"Ivan Illich: Intellectual Titan"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/08/ivan-illich-intellectual-titan.html
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Great Illich Webpage
http://backpalm.blogspot.com/
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"Ivan Illich: Intellectual Titan"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/08/ivan-illich-intellectual-titan.html