[Peace-discuss] Seat at the table

[John W.]

At 10:07 PM 3/28/2007, Chuck Minne wrote:

>Can't say I ever met de Tocqueville, and I have no idea what he meant by 
>worst and best behavior. But I would say that our rulers/controllers 
>desperately want us to "believe" we have a seat at the table; even though 
>they know it is illusory. For anyone who thinks they have a seat at the 
>table will never be a revolutionary or anything worse than a mildly 
>fractious sheep. Like Noam.

Like Noam, and like everyone who reads this Peace-discuss list.

There are no revolutionaries in America.  You gotta feel that you have 
nothing left to lose to be a revolutionary.  You can't make a fat-cat 
living as a professional "intellectual" and be a revolutionary.



>Bob Illyes <illyes at uiuc.edu> wrote:
>I think it was de Tocqueville who observed that the common man
>behaved the worst when he felt disenfranchised, and that he was
>at his best when he believed that he had a seat at the table.
>The most critical thing to democracy, therefore, is the certainty
>that each of us can make a difference. The real enemies are
>cynicism and despair.
>
>The thing we must bear in mind is that the people always have a
>seat at the table, and it is the plan of the plutocrats to convince
>them to the contrary. I'm with Ricky on this issue. We have a seat.
>But we have to take it (it will not be offered to us) and ask those
>who despair of any justice to join us, because they also have a seat.
>
>Bob
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