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An impartial investigation of the last war, of what preceded it and what has come out of it, would show beyond a doubt that there is in the world a group of men with vast powers of control, that prefers to remain unknown, that does not seek office or any of the tokens of power, that belongs to no nation whatever but is international—a force that uses every government, every widespread business organization, every agency of publicity, every resource of national psychology, to throw the world into a panic for the sake of getting still more power over the world. -- Henry Ford. My Life and Work.

It's amazing to see how a person absolutely brilliant in one field can be a total idiot in another. In the Henry Ford's case, they showed during the court proceedings (Ford vs Chicago Tribune) that he didn't know anything beyond car manufacturing.

"He was virtually illiterate, obviously, and his philosophy was unashamedly out of the cracker barrel. Both these characteristics were common to any number of residents in the American hinterland," Tebbel wrote.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1997-06-08/news/9706300080_1_henry-ford-chicago-tribune-anarchist