booms & social movements

[Carl Remick]

>Some time ago, we discussed the Kerner Commission's conclusion that 
>improving
>times were a major contributory factor to the urban uprisings of the time.

The idea of the "revolution of rising expecations" was a big preoccupation 
of longshoreman-philosopher Eric Hoffer (mercilessly parodied as "Eric 
Mouth" by the Harvard Lampoon), as I recall.

Carl

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