Owen Hatherley: "There's a reason why nobody reads this book anymore - because Wiener's central thesis was so resoundingly disproved. He predicts that in bringing back 'market discipline,' Thatcher will rejuvenate British industry and the 'northern' values it inculcated - instead, the industrial centres of Tyneside, Clydeside and Teeside, South Wales and the West Midlands, Greater Manchester and the West Riding all faced a cataclysm on such a scale that most have still not recovered."
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From John T. Noonan's "Contraception: A History of Its Treatment by the Catholic Theologians and Canonists": "Using an argument which only an English writer would invoke, he [Herbert McCabe, an English Dominican] compared the complex of required acts to the complex of acts necessary to score in a game. Not every single act had to tend toward the goal: the player may be 'occasionally making a move which is the opposite of the crucial-making a move which if invariably employed would make success impossible.' "On recule pour mieux sauter", both in games and in the preservation of the race, was McCabe's suggestion."
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