Once a person reaches Consciousness III, there is no returning to a lower consciousness. - Charles A. Reich

Organizations are not really "owned" by anyone. What formerly constituted ownership was split up into stockholders' rights to share in profits, management's power to set policy, employees' right to status and security, government's right to regulate. Thus older forms of wealth were replaced by new forms.

there is every reason to fear that the State is growing ever more powerful, more autonomous, more indifferent to its own inhabitants.

One of the most clearly marked trends for over twenty years has been the decline in civil liberties.