The Ghost in the White House: Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can make themselves felt with a president, how they can back him up, express themselves to him, be expressed by him, and get what they wantLee, Gerald Stanley
Philosophy
The Ghost in the White House: Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can make themselves felt with a president, how they can back him up, express themselves to him, be expressed by him, and get what they want
Lee, Gerald Stanley
Democracy; United States -- Politics and government
I am not saying that spiritually tired people are to blame for being
tired. I am pointing out a fact to be acted on.
Tired people always want the same thing. They want a thing to stay as it
is--or they want it to stay just as it is--upside down. The same
inefficiency, fear and weakness, meanness--merely another set of people
running the inefficiency and trying to make fear, weakness, meanness
work.
This is where the Put-Through Clan of the Air Line League comes in. The
Put-Through Clan will throw the local and national influence of twenty
million consumers on to the side of spirited or team-work capital and
labor, and will discourage, make ridiculous and impossible, the scared
fighting capital and the scared fighting labor with which we are now
being troubled.
The real line of demarcation in modern industry is not between capital
and labor, but between spirited capital and labor that want to work,
create and construct, on the one hand, and unspirited capital and labor,
working as little and thinking as little as they can, on the other.
The majority of revolutionaries are people who without taking any trouble
to study or understand anything, or to change anything, just turn it
thoughtlessly upside down--substitute their inefficiency for the other
man's.
Extreme revolutionaries generally talk about freedom, but until they can
get us to believe they are going to allow freedom to others, the world is
not going to let them--of all people, have any.
The bottom fact about revolutionary labor like revolutionary capital is
that it is tired. Revolutionary labor is not spirited. It is as
soggy-minded, thoughtless and automatic to be a revolutionist to-day as
it is to be a Louis XVI.
It takes originality to construct and to change things and change the
hearts and minds of people and the spirit of a nation.
Anybody can be a revolutionist or a reactionary. All one has to do is to
stop thinking and sag, or stop thinking and slash.
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The mills of the gods grind slowly because they grind fine. The main
difference between men and the gods is that when men do things on a large
scale they are apt to slur things over and be mechanical, do things in
huge empty swoops--pass over details and particular persons, and the gods
when they do things on a large scale pay more attention to details, to
microbes and to particular persons than ever.
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