LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

it, you can start by cleaning up your own minds. You can clear out the
crap that you JOURNAL ISTS KNOW is crap: when they write it.
You can then clear out the crap that journalists BELIEVE along with
their fake news, along what the advertisers LET the OWNERS (so
called), let the editors PUBLISH. There is a second layer of crap that
newspapermen believe to be real. BUT it is not grounded on a real
knowledge of ANYTHING.
They have NOT gone into the documents. They have not read the real
history. They chase one butterfly after another.
NOW the facts are NOT wholly hidden. There are fifty authors whom
you could read, Brooks Adams, among ’em. You could read the works of
the men who fought for the making of the Republic, John Adams,
Jefferson, Van Buren, hidden or kept in shadow by punk propaganda.
You could get down to the usury swindles, lit up by Demosthenes. Will
you wake up to the fact that the gradual elimination of the classics had a
purpose, a damn dirty purpose ? Get boiled down to a few harmless
authors, say to Tibullus and Virgil, taste for the unreal in poetry, and the
student’s eye got off the reality.
Look at John Adams’ paideuma. Look at what a man in those days, with
no million dollar library, could learn while living on American farm
land. Boston having about 15 thousand inhabitants.
No, it is the habit of “not being interested in takin’ things as seriously
as”— —That refers to a young American college graduate tellin’ me his
friends and acquaintances weren’t interested in taking things as seriously
as I do.
Waal, it would have been just a bit better for ’em and, as Mr. Patchen
remarks in the headin’ of one of his poems “I don’t want to alarm you,
but we are most of us going to be shot.” Also a fellow named Caidwell, I