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Figure 8.11 Manhattan , 1979, directed by Woody Allen. 'Well, all right, why is life worth living? That's a
very good question. Well, there are certain things I guess that make it worthwhile. Uh, like
what? Okay. Um, for me . . . oh, I would say . . . what, Groucho Marx, to name one thing . . .
and Willie Mays, and . . . the second movement of the Jupiter Symphony, and . . . Louis
Armstrong's recording of 'Potatohead Blues' . . . Swedish movies, naturally . . . 'Sentimental
Education' by Flaubert . . . Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra . . . those incredible apples and pears
by Cézanne . . . the crabs at Sam Wo's . . . Tracy's face . . . (and cycling on your bike in the
city).'
Source : British Film Institute Stills Collection.
and to develop a debate around them. Some of these areas may even seem unpalatable in
2013, but we should include them in the strategic conversation - in Herman Kahn's words to
help think the unthinkable.
Perhaps in 2030 and 2050 we will experience great surprise in looking back at the way
people used to live and travel (in 2013). The car-dominated society of the late twentieth century
and early twenty-first century might seem very anachronistic. How we used oil as if it was
an infinite resource, how we ignored the problems of climate change and the impact of transport
on the city. But to get there we need much imagination in the process of strategy development,
participation and implementation. Bellamy (1888, pp. 6-7) describes society and the process
of capitalism as follows:
A prodigious coach which the masses of humanity were harnessed to and dragged
toilsomely along a very hilly and sandy road. The driver was hunger, and permitted no
lagging, though the pace was necessarily very slow. Despite the difficulty of drawing the
coach at all along so hard a road, the top was covered with passengers who never got
 
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