[Peace-discuss] larry flynt on freedom and monetary policy

[E. Wayne Johnson]

Absolutely correct except
I would suggest this modification ---

... the linchpin is the "political class",
  who've thrown in their lot with the fraction of 1% of the population 
who own the country --
/altho' their interest as a group is to lie to the 80% and keep the 20% 
engaged in circuses./"

On 8/21/2009 9:59 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> E. Wayne Johnson quoted
>> "The real war is not between the left and the right. It is between 
>> the average American and the ruling class. If we come together on 
>> this single
>> issue, everything else will resolve itself. It's time we took back our
>> government from those who would make us their slaves."
>
> True enough, but the linchpin is the "political class"*, who've thrown 
> in their lot with the fraction of 1% of the population who own the 
> country -- altho' their interests as a group lie with the 80%.
>
> It's been a principle of American politics since it was enunciated by 
> the first chief justice of the US Supreme Court, John Jay, that "those 
> who own the country ought to govern it."  The political class make 
> that happen.
>
> ________________________
>
> * "...there are two different groups [who are] targets for propaganda. 
> One is what's sometimes called the political class. There's maybe 
> twenty percent of the population which is relatively educated, more or 
> less articulate, plays some kind of role in decision-making. They're 
> supposed to participate in social life -- either as managers, or 
> cultural managers like teachers and writers and so on. They're 
> supposed to vote, they're supposed to play some role in the way 
> economic and political and cultural life goes on. Now their consent is 
> crucial. So that's one group that has to be deeply indoctrinated. Then 
> there's maybe eighty percent of the population whose main function is 
> to follow orders and not think, and not to pay attention to anything 
> -- and they're the ones who usually pay the costs" [Noam Chomsky].
>
> (If the 20% are the linchpin, the 80% are the wheel that does the work 
> by going around in circles, and, I suppose the fraction of 1% is the 
> axle, which goes along for the ride...)
>
>

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