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| >>Note: Where the Reader sees that to Achieve a Good Society we need Good Activists with Know-How |
| >>Note: In which the Author goes in Search of the Personality that can run a Good Government and Finds it in Something called Benevolent and Polyvalent, said Type being Preferred to Rigid and Hostile Types and Encouraged to Flourish in all the Institutional Recesses of Ye Olde Societie |
| >>Note: Wherein the Reader is Made to Feel that Nobody but Oneself is Watching the State of Affairs of State, and that We must Hustle Institutions to Bring their Members Willy-nilly into Political Life. |
| >>Note: How the Movers and Shakers are Imbedded in their Groups and can be Understood by Psyching Said Groups, which gives Some Ideas on how Everybody can Be a Leader. |
| >>Note: Insofar as the Troubles People Feel are Said to be mostly Personal and the Troubles of Government are Misunderstood as Belonging to somebody Else, it is No Surprise to see Indignant Ignoramuses often Taking Charge of Affairs. |
| >>Note: The Reader is now Led to Believe that Societies historically have been Hotbeds of Prejudice (which is True) and Worse, that Women, Blacks, Youth, and Most of Us, in fact, are Made to Look like Asses so as to Make a Few People feel Great. |
| >>Note: Why, from Ancient Greece to Modern America, it Appears True that Human Relations lend their Color to Political Relations, and Hence that to Control the Latter We must Attend to the Former. |
| >>Note: Investigating All Manner of Behavior, Nice and Un-nice, the Author Begs his Readers to Consider that Governments have Done Everything in Times Past, Alas, and should be Curtailed by Divers and Clever Contrivances. |
| >>Note: Where it is shown How Groups acquire Structures, which Structures then Bind Said Groups, and Wherefor it is Necessary to Provide Kalotic Bonds and also Means of Unbinding Groups that are Uptight and Unobliging. |
| >>Note: Examining the Vaunted Progress of Material Life in Rich Countries, the Author is Impelled to Warn his Readers that they are Worse Off than they Think, for Sundry Reasons having to do with Mismanagement of Production, Concentration of Wealth, and Bizarre Taxation, and he Begs them to Adopt a Universal Credit Scheme, a Single Tax, and other Attractive Proposals. |
| >>Note: Why the Process of Justice is Defective Six Ways is Irritably Explained, Whereupon a Radical Reorganization of the Legal System, including a Virtual Juridicature, is Outrightly Recommended. |
| >>Note: How Obedience need not be Abused, and Chauvinism can be Tamed, and Wherein Mao was Right and Wrong, and Whence will come Relief from Oppression by Nuclear Weaponry. |
| >>Note: Inasmuch as New Movements in Politics that are Worthy must Rewrite History, the Author takes the First Step by Offering a Concise History of the United States of America, Located when Last Seen in Western Hemisphere, Planet Earth, and in the Hearts of his Countrymen. |
| >>Note: Chapter in which, Despite the Pandemonium of the Present, the Author Foresees An Acceptable World Acoming, and with These Blessed Tidings, Bids his Readers Adieu. |
| INTRODUCTION: Where it is Explained Why the Author, of all People, should Write such a Book |
| >>Note: Where it is Explained Why the Author, of all People, should Write such a Book. |
| POLITICAL SCIENCE IN THREE LESSONS |
| >>Note: The Amazing Complexity of Politics notwithslanding, the gentle Reader is Seduced into Imagining that three Pleasant Exercises will give to One adequate Mental Muscle |
| Lesson #1: CLASSIC COMIC STRIPS |
| Lesson #2: A MODEL OF POWER |
| Lesson #3: ORGANIZED AND DlSORGANIZED POWER |
| POLITICS FOR BETTER OR WORSE by ALFRED De GRAZIA |
| Lesson Number 1: CLASSIC COMIC STRIPS |
| Eco-Political Development |
| POLITICS FOR BETTER OR WORSE by ALFRED De GRAZIA |
| Lesson Number 2: A MODEL OF POWER |
| Special Conversion Skills |
| The propositions of Payoff Preference |
| Where We Are and Where We're Going |
| Power As Type Of Influence |
| POLITICS FOR BETTER OR WORSE |
| Lesson Number 3: ORGANIZED AND DlSORGANIZED POWER |
| Extension of The Power Model |
| The Organization of Power |
| POLITICS FOR BETTER OR WORSE |
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