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In 1953, the famous Polish poet and diplomat Czeslaw Milosz published ‘The Captive Mind’ and portrayed how European intellectuals became admiringly captive to systems thinking against all opposing facts. Around the same time, others such as Raymond Aron and Karl Popper voiced similar concerns. The writing was about communism. The warning in these books which can be applied to all ‘-isms’ is ‘keep an open and independent mind’, a message which is as relevant to the Europeans of then as of those today.
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Schepers, S., Kakabadse, A. (2014). Introduction. In: Schepers, S., Kakabadse, A. (eds) Rethinking the Future of Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137024015_1
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