Doug Henwood:
> Un-American? What precisely is American, then? Were slavery and Jim Crow
> American or un-American? How about Mark Hanna and PACs? Andrew Carnegie?
> When was this Golden Age from which recent history has been a departure?
> Where and when was this original democracy that's been corruptd by usurpers?
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> Yeah, I know I've turned off the masses now.
Well, Margaret _did_ say "mandate." One can look on the usual suspect documents as _intentions_ which a given ruling class can be thought of as advancing or subverting. I think this sort of thing goes right back to the F.F., and we hear it again and again, as when Robert Frost mumbled "will become" on that sunny day famous long ago. Becoming _and_ being. It's one of the paradoxes of liberalism, like "liberty under the law", democratic plutocracy, equality for the few, collectivization under private capitalism, mass individuality, pop culture. No wonder Goedel was upset.
Gordon