1960 Prediction of C. Wright Mills
from Masadi Sahib
"Tomorrow the returns from what you do and what you fail to do in the hungry-nation bloc ("Third World") will be even more evident. But will they be obvious enough to distract you from the energetic pursuit of your private affairs?..This is a question for all Americans in the Western Hemisphere ....
What they are saying in the hungry-nations, in the slum countries of the world, is that the rich Yankees pay attention only to money and to violence. And if you don't have the money, then all you've got left is the violence."
(C. Wright Mills, Listen Yankee, 1960:35, McGraw Hill).
"The men of higher circles (in America) are not representative men; their high position is not the result of moral virtue; their fabulous success is not firmly connected with meritorious ability. Those who sit in the seats of the high and mighty are selected and formed by the means of power, the sources of wealth and the mechanics of celebrity, which prevail in their society...They are not men shaped by nationally responsible parties that debate openly and clearly the issues that this nation now so unintelligently confronts. They are not men held in responsible check by a plurality of volunteer associations which connect debating publics with the pinnacles of decision... Commandeers of power unequaled in human history, they have suceeded within the American system of organized irresponsibility."
(C. Wright Mills,The Power Elite, 1956:360-361)
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Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." --
Albert Einstein !!!
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