Friday 6 December 2019

Consultation

A character in a fictional world is reading an article in a magazine, detailing some proposed changes:
"They have been published, it seems, for general criticism; and one gathers that in the modern Utopia the administration presents the most elaborately detailed schemes of any proposed alteration in law or custom, some time before any measure is taken to carry it into effect, and the possibilities of every detail are acutely criticized, flaws anticipated, side issues raised, and the whole minutely tested and fined down by a planetful of critics, before the actual process of legislation begins."
~ H G Wells (A Modern Utopia )
A utopia indeed!

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