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
John Stuart Mill · en
The vision of the future of the Put-Through Clan that lies ahead is that
it shall keep on dramatizing these qualities in the American character at
home, selecting things to do which shall dramatize our people to one
another, to themselves and to the people of other nations.
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The way to make democracy work is for the people to use their brains,
their spirit and their imagination to do team-work with the inventors and
engineers who help express their democracy for them.
The platform of the Put-Through Clan is the right of all to be waited on.
Skilled labor has a right to be waited on by skilled capital.
Skilled capital has a right to skilled labor in return.
The new and stupendous force in modern life from now on is to be the
skilled consumer--the organization of the consumer-group to cooeperate
with skilled capital and skilled labor, to make it impossible as it is
now, for unskilled capital, capital which has not the skill to win the
public, or to win its own labor, and for unskilled labor, labor which
cannot earn its money and takes it whether it earns it or not, to compel
the consumer by force and by holdups to buy goods they do not want at
prices they are not worth from men with whom they do not want to deal.
The skilled consumer will organize his skill and deal with the people he
wants.
All the people of this country--the consumers (the real employers of all
employers) have to do, is to whisper in one national whisper through a
hundred thousand grocery stores and other stores what kind of employers
and workmen, what kind of goods and factories they like, and the buyers
and consumers of America instead of taking what is poked out at them
because they have to, and being the fools and the slaves of capital and
labor, will get with a whisper what they request, and we will return and
will let employers and workmen return, to the status of human beings.
Sec. 2. _How._
The test of a man's truth is his technique.
What Mathias Alexander believes about conscious control and making
self-discipline work is true because he does not have to say it. He
dramatizes it.
Alexander is right in his fundamental idea of giving conscious control to
people through new brain tracks toward their bodies because they get up
and walk away from him when they have been with him, with their new brain
tracks on. New habits--new psycho-physical habits, like Culebra cuts are
put right through them.
The man who conceives or invents may be wrong, the man who experiments or
tries out, may need to be watched, but the man who puts through is
inviolable.
The program, the spirit and the function of the Put-Through Clan in a
town, is to embody truth so baldly and with such a shameless plainness
that no matter how hard they try, people cannot tug away from it.
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