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The radicals-in-the-professions challenged the PMC not for its lack of autonomy (as the student movement had in the early sixties), but for its very claims to autonomy-objectivity, commitment to public service, and expertise itself. "Demystification" was the catchword. Radical doctors wanted not only to free their profession from the grip of the "medical industrial complex," but to demystify medicine. Radical lawyers would open up the law books and make elementary legal skills available to the people. Radical psychiatrists would lead the assault on psychiatric mythology and show that any sensitive community person could easily replace them. Radical teachers would expose the capitalist functions of education. And so on.
Between Labour and Capital
Pat Walker
I thought about what my Book would say about the ego of a writer, but I decided not to bring it up, and instead I asked him about God. “If you don’t believe God is real, why would God help you? Don’t you think he knows the difference between someone who really believes and someone who’s just faking it?” “God is a story,” he said. “I believe in stories, and God knows this. Stories are real, my boy. They matter. If you lose your belief in your story, you vill lose yourself.”
The Book of Form and Emptiness
Ruth Ozeki
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