1. History
   1. Centered on founding fathers and presidents weigh oppressively on the capacity of the oridanary one to save us
      1. In the revolutionary crisis, founding fathers, slavery= Lincoln, Depression: Roosevelt, Vietnam-watergate: Carter
         1. In reality they are harming us
      2. Teach us that the supreme act of citizenship is to choose among saviors
         1. Vote every four years to choose between two white and well off Anglo-Saxon males of inoffensive personality
            1. Our votes just keep supporting this oppressive system
      3. Idea of saviors has been built into the entire culture
         1. We learn to look at stars, leaders, experts in every field for the answers
            1. Rebellions reject this idea
            2. American system is overly controlling
2. One Percent
   1. Control 33% of the wealth
      1. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99% against one another
         1. Small property owners against propertyless
            1. These groups resent each other because we're taught to
   2. The 99% should unite as "the people"
      1. Declare enemy against the interest of the 1% of corporate control
         1. Government has wealthy elite dedicated to them
            1. How do we break the system?
3. World War II
   1. Created new unity
      1. Extinguish strong radical temper of the war years
         1. Surge of sixties
            1. New radicalism threatened to spread widely
4. Middle class
   1. Tax them to pay relief of poor
      1. Build much resentment
         1. Establishment not safe
5. Revolts
   1. Power always in hands of elites
      1. People's movements do show an infinite capacity for recurrence
         1. Defeated or absorbed
   2. Multiple layers
      1. If issue of class or injustice
         1. Expression is open, subtle, direct, distorted
            1. This keeps alive memory of people's resistance
6. Establishment
   1. Cannot survive without obedience and loyalty of millions of people who are given small rewards to keep the system going
      1. Like teachers, police, soldiers, ministers, administrators, social workers, technicians
         1. These people are employed drawn into alliance with elite
            1. Become guards of system/buffers between upper and lower classes
            2. If stop obeying the system fails
   2. Inability to solve severe economic problems or manufacture abroad a safety valve
      1. Where is the hope ?
7. Doomsday technology
   1. Hostages
      1. Runway economics, global poisoning, uncontainable war, atomic weapons, economic anarchy
         1. Growing dissatisfaction among guards
8. Dissatisfaction
   1. Polls show 70-80% of Americans to be distrustful of government business and military
      1. Distrust goes beyond blacks, poor, radical
         1. Spread among skilled workers, professionals, lower/middle class
            1. System is failing
         2. Signs also divorce, alcoholism, drug use
            1. That's about guards being disillusioned also within the system
         3. Middle class growing more insecure
            1. Threat of unemployment
            2. Can't be a pleasant feeling
9. Rise in crimes
   1. Contrasts of wealth and poverty
      1. Culture of possession
         1. Fierce economic competition
            1. A lot of theft
      2. Publicized crimes from young and poor
         1. Society stratified by wealth and education= class anger
10. Fear of...
    1. Criminal assaults
       1. Increase
          1. Scares people
    2. Cancer
       1. These deaths began to multiply
          1. Must have been coming from an environment poisoned by military experimentation and industrial greed
             1. Water, air, particles have all been contaminated over the years
    3. AIDS
       1. Spread rapidly among homosexuals and drug addicts
          1. Stigma attached to these groups
             1. Causes discrimination
11. Complex conditions of control
    1. require combining energy of all previous movements
       1. Labor insurgents, black rebels, women, young
          1. New angry emergence of middle class
             1. Serves as inspiration
    2. Prisoners of the system
       1. Continue to rebel
          1. May be joined by the guards