It would be a good thing, if the systems planner's germination was moral outrage and not just a mild felt need. In other words, I do not think we sho… - C. West Churchman

It is sheer nonsense to expect that any human being has yet been able to attain such insight into the problems of society that he can really identify the central problems and determine how they should be solved. The systems in which we live are far too complicated as yet for our intellectual powers and technology to understand.

We must face the reality that the enemies offer: what's really happening in the human world is politics, or morality, or religion, or aesthetics. This confrontation with reality is totally different from the rational approach, because the reality of the enemies cannot be conceptualized, approximated, or measured.

If the story of my early years with Russ sound like they were years of battle, then the sound is correct.