#LewisMumford In #MythOfTheMachine applying the ideas he introduced from #Comte, of a 170 years ago, to the #Pentagon . Even #Specialists need a more Holistic or #SynopticView . The #Shelly #PercyShelley quote is from #QueenMab.
'Power, like a desolating pestilence,
Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience,
Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,
Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame
A mechanized automaton. '
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley#Queen_Mab_(1813)

> ... specialists in each of the fields he touched complained that he spread himself too thin. But almost everything he did was worth attending to, and his career has the coherence of a life lived both passionately and intelligently.
- https://www.nytimes.com/1973/02/18/archives/paul-goodman-outsider-looking-in.html
#PaulGoodman #Comte #LewisMuford #generalists #synopticview