WEBVTT NOTE Revolution 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.840 Today's revolution. At the present moment in time, there are actually two major revolutions 2 00:00:08.840 --> 00:00:18.880 in progress. One is the real revolution. The other has many of the attributes of revolution, 3 00:00:18.880 --> 00:00:26.240 but in point of fact, it isn't really a revolution, if we understand the meaning of the term. 4 00:00:26.240 --> 00:00:32.640 I would like to begin by drawing your attention to a book written by Rose Wilder Lane entitled 5 00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:39.280 The Discovery of Freedom, and I would like to read a few paragraphs from this work. I 6 00:00:39.280 --> 00:00:40.280 quote, 7 00:00:40.280 --> 00:00:47.240 When men try to make energy work, and it does not work, it fails to work because they are 8 00:00:47.240 --> 00:00:53.440 not using that energy in accordance with its own nature. A gasoline engine will never run 9 00:00:53.440 --> 00:01:00.200 on Water because it is not the nature of steam to explode when a spark touches it. When, 10 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:05.720 for 6,000 years, human energy does not work well enough to get from this earth enough 11 00:01:05.720 --> 00:01:11.980 food to keep human beings alive, it does not work because men are not using their energy 12 00:01:11.980 --> 00:01:21.780 in accordance with the nature of human energy. Every human being, by his nature, is free. 13 00:01:21.780 --> 00:01:30.540 That is to say, he controls himself. But in the old world men believe that some authority 14 00:01:30.540 --> 00:01:37.440 outside himself controls him. Now they cannot make their energy work by any such belief 15 00:01:37.440 --> 00:01:43.840 because the belief is false. But they do not question the belief because when they submit 16 00:01:43.840 --> 00:01:50.720 to a living authority's control and cannot get food, they can always blame the authority 17 00:01:50.720 --> 00:01:56.240 and that gives them an alibi. This is what they have always done. The history of every 18 00:01:56.240 --> 00:02:03.860 group of men who ever obeyed a living authority is a history of revolts against all forms 19 00:02:03.860 --> 00:02:11.400 of that authority. Look at any available record of any people living anywhere at any time 20 00:02:11.400 --> 00:02:17.800 in the whole history of the world. They revolt against their king and replace him by another 21 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:23.440 King. Then they revolt against him and set up still another king. In time, they revolt 22 00:02:23.440 --> 00:02:30.840 against monarchy and set up another kind of living authority. For generations or centuries, 23 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:36.280 they revolt and change their rulers. Then they revolt against that kind of authority 24 00:02:36.280 --> 00:02:39.120 and set up another kind. 25 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:45.840 From Nebuchadnezzar to Hitler, history is one long record of revolts, first against 26 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:59.800 When these revolts succeed, they are called revolutions. But they are revolutions only 27 00:02:59.800 --> 00:03:07.620 in the sense that a wheel's turning is a revolution. This is an old world revolution, 28 00:03:07.620 --> 00:03:14.340 and it is only a movement around a motionless center. It never breaks out of the circle. 29 00:03:14.340 --> 00:03:22.860 Firm in the center is belief in external authority of some kind. They replace the priest by a 30 00:03:22.860 --> 00:03:28.980 king, the king by an oligarchy, the oligarchs by a despot, the despot by an aristocracy, 31 00:03:28.980 --> 00:03:33.540 the aristocrats by a majority, the majority by a tyrant, the tyrant by oligarchs, the 32 00:03:33.540 --> 00:03:38.060 oligarchs by aristocrats, the aristocrats by a king, the king by a parliament, the parliament 33 00:03:38.060 --> 00:03:44.660 by a Dictator, the Dictator by a King, the King by... There is 6,000 years of that in 34 00:03:44.660 --> 00:03:51.380 every language. Every imaginable kind of living authority has been tried and is still being 35 00:03:51.380 --> 00:03:57.620 tried somewhere on earth now. All these kinds have been tried too in every possible combination. 36 00:03:57.620 --> 00:04:02.180 The priest and the king, the king who is the priest, the king who is God, the king and 37 00:04:02.180 --> 00:04:07.180 a Senate, the king and the Senate and a majority, the Senate and a tyrant, the tyrant and the 38 00:04:07.180 --> 00:04:12.660 The aristocrats, a king and a parliament, try to think of a combination. Somewhere it 39 00:04:12.660 --> 00:04:19.700 has been tried. In 1920, the Albanians tried four quarter kings and aristocrats and a parliament 40 00:04:19.700 --> 00:04:25.120 all at the same time. The Bedouin of Iraq used to combine a tyrant with a majority. 41 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:29.820 The emir had absolute power of life and death. He owned all the property, dictated all the 42 00:04:29.820 --> 00:04:35.820 marriages, made all the treaties and raids and wars. If he made one decision that the 43 00:04:35.820 --> 00:04:41.100 The tribe did not approve. His subjects killed him and gave another man the job. This works 44 00:04:41.100 --> 00:04:47.620 all right, too, except the bedouin do not get enough to eat. Each of these kinds of 45 00:04:47.620 --> 00:04:54.360 living authority and every one of the combinations has worked all right, except that the subjects 46 00:04:54.360 --> 00:05:01.080 never do get enough to eat. That's the end of the quotation from Discovery of Freedom. 47 00:05:01.080 --> 00:05:07.960 Let me go back over some of the important points that Mrs. Lane has brought out. First, 48 00:05:07.960 --> 00:05:15.600 she points out that what we call revolutions are in point of fact not real revolutions. 49 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:21.040 They are simply revolutions in the sense that a wheel's turning is a revolution. Because 50 00:05:21.040 --> 00:05:26.120 revolutions, as we have thought of them in the past, and as some of them are occurring 51 00:05:26.120 --> 00:05:35.480 today are no more than a turning around a firm center in which is embedded the notion 52 00:05:35.480 --> 00:05:40.880 that some external authority has to govern human beings. 53 00:05:40.880 --> 00:05:51.080 The only real revolution that ever began to occur occurred in this country in 1775 with 54 00:05:51.080 --> 00:05:57.380 The American Revolution, which at least as it was conducted at the outset, was a revolt 55 00:05:57.380 --> 00:06:05.760 against authority per se. As it was put together, the original purpose was not to create a new 56 00:06:05.760 --> 00:06:12.160 government but simply to get out from under the old, not to overthrow the old, to leave 57 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:17.820 that available for those who wanted it, but simply to get out from under so that men could 58 00:06:17.820 --> 00:06:25.240 would be free and that was done with the knowledge and belief that each human being had certain 59 00:06:25.240 --> 00:06:31.500 unalienable rights and that every human being had the same rights and therefore no human 60 00:06:31.500 --> 00:06:39.300 being possibly could obtain to some kind of a rightful control of a second party without 61 00:06:39.300 --> 00:06:41.300 that second party's consent. 62 00:06:41.300 --> 00:06:47.000 Now that is a real revolution and that revolution is the real revolution that is continuing 63 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:55.520 in the face of any number of revolutionary appearing movements which are merely struggles 64 00:06:55.520 --> 00:07:05.760 for power and replace in a sense the violence of a ballot conducted election with the violence 65 00:07:05.760 --> 00:07:13.020 of a bullet conducted election. Today there are any number of groups which are violence 66 00:07:13.020 --> 00:07:20.860 is prone. Some of them are in power, and some of them seek power. But these are not revolutionary 67 00:07:20.860 --> 00:07:26.620 parties. Many people suppose that the communist movement is a revolutionary movement. It is 68 00:07:26.620 --> 00:07:33.540 really not. It is as old as the hills. It is merely a struggle for power, a struggle 69 00:07:33.540 --> 00:07:38.200 to take power away from those who have it and put it into the hands of those who do 70 00:07:38.200 --> 00:07:44.360 do not have it. In that sense, it is just a turning of the wheel around a motionless 71 00:07:44.360 --> 00:07:51.420 center, firm in the center is the belief that somebody has to run other people. Whether 72 00:07:51.420 --> 00:07:57.040 it is going to be a group of people who represent the proletariat, so-called, or whether it 73 00:07:57.040 --> 00:08:02.520 is to be a group of people who represent the bourgeoisie, so-called, or whether it is to 74 00:08:02.520 --> 00:08:08.880 to be a group of people who attempt or try or possibly, in a sense, maybe even succeed 75 00:08:08.880 --> 00:08:15.240 in part to represent both sides, the fact remains that this is a denial of the nature 76 00:08:15.240 --> 00:08:26.000 of man. By man's nature, each one of us controls himself. That is a fact. It is a fact of nature. 77 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:38.000 True, we can influence others, we can frighten others, we can in fact kill others if we want to, but there is no way that we can control another. 78 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:51.000 The only energy that will cause you to flex your fingers or raise your arm is yours, and the only decision that will cause that to happen is your decision. 79 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:58.520 Of course, others may impose on you to get you to make that decision to conduct those 80 00:08:58.520 --> 00:08:59.520 movements. 81 00:08:59.520 --> 00:09:03.400 But in the end, the ultimate decision is yours. 82 00:09:03.400 --> 00:09:09.600 And the way that you behave is the result of your own judgment because that is the way 83 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:11.960 nature has arranged it. 84 00:09:11.960 --> 00:09:16.960 Each human being, in fact, controls himself. 85 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:25.360 Now the real revolution is the revolution that proposes to set the world into a condition 86 00:09:25.360 --> 00:09:35.000 where that fact is recognized on as broad a front as possible. It is not presumed that 87 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:41.240 it is possible to teach everyone that fact even though it is a fact. At no time in the 88 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:47.040 and the History of the World have human beings ever agreed on anything. Even the shape of 89 00:09:47.040 --> 00:09:53.760 the globe is still subject to dispute. We in the Western world generally agree that 90 00:09:53.760 --> 00:10:00.280 the world is an orb, a sphere. But there is still a group of people in London who have 91 00:10:00.280 --> 00:10:06.640 a flat earth society and who believe that all of the arguments relating to the shape 92 00:10:06.640 --> 00:10:12.040 of the Earth as being spheroid are false and nothing but propaganda. They are entitled to 93 00:10:12.040 --> 00:10:16.700 their belief. Anyone who wishes to believe whatever he wishes to believe is of course 94 00:10:16.700 --> 00:10:23.260 entitled to believe it. The fact is, of course, that we have never agreed on anything and 95 00:10:23.260 --> 00:10:32.760 therefore to expect that humankind will agree that each one of us is in fact in control 96 00:11:02.760 --> 00:11:12.720 is, in fact, in charge of his own energy. Whether he controls his energy wisely or foolishly, 97 00:11:12.720 --> 00:11:19.740 whether he does it courageously or in fear, these are factors relating to his environment, 98 00:11:19.740 --> 00:11:28.100 to his conditioning, and to his general outlook. But the fact is that he and only he can control 99 00:11:28.100 --> 00:11:54.100 Now that is the point. The real revolution is aimed at extending the American Revolution of 1775 into the future wherein we generally recognize that each man has a right to pursue his own destiny, to own his own property, to consider his own person as sacred, and to treat others in like manner. 100 00:11:54.100 --> 00:11:59.940 Honor. Now that is the revolution. It is not a revolution that seeks power. On the 101 00:11:59.940 --> 00:12:07.380 contrary, instead of seeking a power shift, it seeks constantly to diminish the accumulations 102 00:12:07.380 --> 00:12:15.700 of power, even at those points where it detects accumulations of power being used theoretically 103 00:12:15.700 --> 00:12:22.420 for good purposes. Put quotes around good purposes whenever you think of power being 104 00:12:22.420 --> 00:12:32.420 are being used because the individual who is concerned with the true revolution recognizes that all power is rationalized. 105 00:12:32.420 --> 00:12:41.420 Everyone who uses it always does so because he has what to him appears to be a good purpose. 106 00:12:41.420 --> 00:12:45.420 Let me take a few of the wielders of power today. 107 00:12:45.420 --> 00:12:51.420 There are, of course, in this country, two major political powers. 108 00:12:51.420 --> 00:12:54.420 They are the Democratic and the Republican Party. 109 00:12:54.420 --> 00:12:59.420 They are very large and they wield an enormous amount of power 110 00:12:59.420 --> 00:13:04.420 in terms of their ability to control governmental agencies 111 00:13:04.420 --> 00:13:13.420 or the administration itself wherein their ideas are imposed upon everyone else by force and violence. 112 00:13:13.420 --> 00:13:17.420 Keep in mind that that is the whole function of government. 113 00:13:17.420 --> 00:13:24.320 Its function is to arrive at a monopoly of power held by a limited number of people who 114 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:27.520 will impose that power on everyone else. 115 00:13:27.520 --> 00:13:35.020 So your major holders of power today are those who legally hold it, those within legally 116 00:13:35.020 --> 00:13:41.540 recognized and accepted organizations called political parties who manipulate the public 117 00:13:41.540 --> 00:13:48.340 Mind through Propaganda, Speeches and Oratory into believing that if you grant one particular 118 00:13:48.340 --> 00:13:54.860 group power rather than the other, everything is going to be fine for you. In point of fact, 119 00:13:54.860 --> 00:14:00.900 the American public is beginning finally to be disillusioned in this area. We now detect 120 00:14:00.900 --> 00:14:07.460 after long experimentation in this area that in point of fact, the differences that arise 121 00:14:07.460 --> 00:14:14.580 Studies as a result of an election are academic in character. There are differences, of course. 122 00:14:14.580 --> 00:14:21.620 They are differences in degree. But overall, the concept remains the central idea that 123 00:14:21.620 --> 00:14:28.980 someone other than you has to make the meaningful decisions about what you do. And that is false. 124 00:14:28.980 --> 00:14:35.460 That is contrary to the nature of life and to the nature of man as they are. In addition 125 00:14:35.460 --> 00:14:43.700 to the legally entrenched political groups. There are some that are operating extra-legally. 126 00:14:43.700 --> 00:14:51.980 I will mention just a few of them. By no means am I meaning to exclude others. For example, 127 00:14:51.980 --> 00:14:58.300 one of the groups that is operating extra-legally today is the Mafia or the syndicates. Here 128 00:14:58.300 --> 00:15:05.000 we have a group of men who operate not only in defiance of the law, but it has been fairly 129 00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:35.000 The Theory of Money and Credit 130 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:41.240 People are fundamentally in what could be called the protection rackets. In essence, 131 00:15:41.240 --> 00:15:48.420 if you analyze it, the mafia, the syndicates and organized gangsterism per se is doing 132 00:15:48.420 --> 00:15:55.620 illegally precisely what the government is doing legally. The difference is the legality, 133 00:15:55.620 --> 00:16:02.300 the legal sanction that is given to one body and not to the other. Aside from that, they 134 00:16:02.300 --> 00:16:09.180 They are both in the game of protection. They are selling what purports to be protection, 135 00:16:09.180 --> 00:16:14.740 and they sell it at monopolistic prices and enforce their collections. Now that is essentially 136 00:16:14.740 --> 00:16:21.580 what they are. We simply have various gangs here, some of them who are legally sanctioned 137 00:16:21.580 --> 00:16:26.620 and some who are not engaged in what is essentially the same business. 138 00:16:26.620 --> 00:16:32.220 May I point out for emphasis that the legally sanctioned groups, to wit the political parties, 139 00:16:32.220 --> 00:16:38.460 operate precisely the same way the syndicates and the mafia do. To wit, they create artificial 140 00:16:38.460 --> 00:16:45.820 scarcities by passing laws which move into the economy and prevent people from producing 141 00:16:45.820 --> 00:16:50.900 certain goods, prevent other people from trading with other people, and do other things of 142 00:16:50.900 --> 00:16:57.620 a sanctioned nature which prevent a laissez-faire economy and militate against the idea of free 143 00:16:57.620 --> 00:17:02.180 free trade and free exchange on the basis of individual desire. 144 00:17:02.180 --> 00:17:09.400 So there is no real difference between the mafia and the people in political office except 145 00:17:09.400 --> 00:17:16.780 the difference of legal sanction. And what we as the general public seem to do is that 146 00:17:16.780 --> 00:17:22.180 we prefer, as Shakespeare said, to accept those dangers that we have rather than to 147 00:17:22.180 --> 00:17:28.060 to fly to others that we know not of, and so we look with fear and apprehension upon 148 00:17:28.060 --> 00:17:33.660 the syndicate and the mafia, which indeed we should. They are illegal, they are gangsters, 149 00:17:33.660 --> 00:17:40.260 and they employ violence, but curiously we look with joy and with hope on the other gangsters 150 00:17:40.260 --> 00:17:46.260 simply because they are legally entrenched, and we sanction them although their behavior 151 00:17:46.260 --> 00:17:48.560 is the same. 152 00:17:48.560 --> 00:17:53.760 Now moving still further out of the area of what is sanctioned and what is not, you have 153 00:17:53.760 --> 00:18:01.760 a group of people who are seeking to take over the government. They are not truly revolutionaries. 154 00:18:01.760 --> 00:18:08.440 They are simply engaged in trying to conduct violent elections. Possibly the most formidable 155 00:18:08.440 --> 00:18:15.240 of this group would be the blacks, and notably the Black Panthers and other black militant 156 00:18:15.240 --> 00:18:24.140 Organizations which are doing their best now to gain power. This is a false revolution, 157 00:18:24.140 --> 00:18:29.000 because if they gain power, they would do precisely the same that the people in power 158 00:18:29.000 --> 00:18:34.280 are presently doing. There is no progress here. There is no real revolution. It is only 159 00:18:34.280 --> 00:18:41.220 again the turning of the wheel. Firm in the center is reliance upon the idea that somebody 160 00:18:41.220 --> 00:18:47.340 has got to have power over other people. Now, the blacks justify their action here on the 161 00:18:47.340 --> 00:18:53.500 grounds that they have been mistreated in the past. There is no question of that fact. 162 00:18:53.500 --> 00:18:58.700 They have been grossly mistreated and abused in the past, an abuse and mistreatment and 163 00:18:58.700 --> 00:19:05.300 prejudice that continues up to the present time. However, the same thing can be true 164 00:19:05.300 --> 00:19:11.940 and the same thing can be said of every other group that ever existed and exists now. 165 00:19:11.940 --> 00:19:16.960 All of us have been abused and mistreated in the past by various groups that are organized 166 00:19:16.960 --> 00:19:19.460 to impose their wills upon us. 167 00:19:19.460 --> 00:19:25.660 Perhaps the blacks form an outstanding and a very sensitive case, but others also are 168 00:19:25.660 --> 00:19:27.900 in much the same category. 169 00:19:27.900 --> 00:19:31.660 There was a time when we treated the Chinese the same way. 170 00:19:31.660 --> 00:19:34.420 There was a time when we treated the Irish this way. 171 00:19:34.420 --> 00:19:38.220 There was a time when we treated the Japanese this way. There was a time when we treated 172 00:19:38.220 --> 00:19:42.540 the Germans this way. There was a time, and there may be a time again, when we feel this 173 00:19:42.540 --> 00:19:48.320 way about the British, the French, the Yugoslavians, or the Abyssinians. It doesn't make any difference. 174 00:19:48.320 --> 00:19:54.460 It is possible to engender prejudice and antagonism against any group. I recall that these same 175 00:19:54.460 --> 00:20:00.660 things have been done against Jews, against Catholics, against Protestants, against Muslims, 176 00:20:00.660 --> 00:20:06.820 Against Hindus, Against Buddhists. We can always organize hatred and prejudice against 177 00:20:06.820 --> 00:20:15.820 some group and then mistreat them. And when we do, we awaken in them the desire to organize 178 00:20:15.820 --> 00:20:21.940 with force and to gain power so that they can get their own back. And that's essentially 179 00:20:21.940 --> 00:20:27.800 what you have here. The black movement, the black militant movement, is essentially aimed 180 00:20:27.800 --> 00:20:42.200 Let's take another group, the KKK, the Ku Klux Klan. Here we have another group of militants 181 00:20:42.200 --> 00:20:48.520 moving in exactly the other way. Here we have a group of militants who believe that the entrenched 182 00:20:48.520 --> 00:20:55.320 holders of legalized power have never been severe enough, nor Christian enough, nor dogmatic 183 00:20:55.320 --> 00:21:00.240 Take-Enough in order to obtain the kind of a society that the people who belong to the 184 00:21:00.240 --> 00:21:02.760 KKK would like to see. 185 00:21:02.760 --> 00:21:08.800 And therefore, they propose and often have taken power into their own hands to punish 186 00:21:08.800 --> 00:21:18.000 individuals whom they felt were wrong, and here we have a case again of organized vengeance 187 00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:24.460 conducted sometimes against a race or sometimes simply against individuals who in the minds 188 00:21:24.460 --> 00:21:50.660 The weathermen, the splinter faction of the SDS that broke away only recently and attempts 189 00:21:50.660 --> 00:21:57.860 here to in a sense carry on the same type of revolution that was called for by Karl Marx. 190 00:21:57.860 --> 00:22:05.340 The Weatherman faction is essentially socialistic, if not communistic, and its whole aim is to 191 00:22:05.340 --> 00:22:12.240 seize power in order that the economy can be revised in terms of a different plan of 192 00:22:12.240 --> 00:22:16.860 distribution than a free market would make possible. That's essentially what it is. 193 00:22:46.860 --> 00:22:53.300 about the government, the government has now stamped them out. I believe their leader has 194 00:22:53.300 --> 00:22:58.300 been arrested. But in any case, the leaders of the Black Panthers have been arrested too. 195 00:22:58.300 --> 00:23:05.100 So it doesn't really mean too much here. The Minutemen were simply organized along the 196 00:23:05.100 --> 00:23:12.140 line of counteracting people such as the Weathermen. And here again, the Minutemen would believe 197 00:23:12.140 --> 00:23:18.620 that the legalized and entrenched agencies of power have not done the job, that they 198 00:23:18.620 --> 00:23:25.940 are, quote, soft on communism, unquote. And therefore, the minutemen propose to take power 199 00:23:25.940 --> 00:23:34.000 into their hands in order to have their will enforced upon the masses of people. And so 200 00:23:34.000 --> 00:23:44.560 So it goes. We have these pseudo-revolutionary forces who in point of fact are merely reactionary 201 00:23:44.560 --> 00:23:51.420 forces. They are simply engaged in conducting violent elections because they don't believe 202 00:23:51.420 --> 00:23:57.640 that a ballot-controlled election would get them anywhere. There aren't enough of them. 203 00:23:57.640 --> 00:24:03.520 On any kind of nose-counting that you care to conduct, none of the groups that I've mentioned 204 00:24:03.520 --> 00:24:09.920 could possibly win an election, and therefore, since they despair of winning an election, 205 00:24:09.920 --> 00:24:15.700 winning a majority count, they simply resort to violence in order to obtain a monopoly 206 00:24:15.700 --> 00:24:19.200 of power over the total society. 207 00:24:19.200 --> 00:24:25.300 Now there are other splinter factions further down the line that are not as firmly entrenched 208 00:24:25.300 --> 00:24:31.560 in power-seeking illegally, but nonetheless they do propose to seek power, and they propose 209 00:25:01.560 --> 00:25:08.200 Here we have people who, as males, they tend to fall in love with other males, or as females, 210 00:25:08.200 --> 00:25:11.560 they tend to fall in love with other females. 211 00:25:11.560 --> 00:25:17.000 One of the interesting things, and in fact almost humorous things, is the current movement 212 00:25:17.000 --> 00:25:24.340 just at this time where some of them are seeking, they say, to take over one of the counties 213 00:25:24.340 --> 00:25:25.940 in California. 214 00:25:25.940 --> 00:25:30.500 It happens to be a county with a very sparse population, and they propose to move into 215 00:25:30.500 --> 00:25:35.780 to it in sufficient numbers so that there will be more members of their front there 216 00:25:35.780 --> 00:25:40.940 than the existing numbers of persons in that county, at which point, operating within the 217 00:25:40.940 --> 00:25:46.420 system and entirely legal, they would propose to elect themselves to public office and to 218 00:25:46.420 --> 00:25:52.540 take over and run the county in their own favor. Of course, the existing residents of 219 00:25:52.540 --> 00:25:58.380 the county are up in arms about it, and yet from the standpoint of legality, the Gay Liberation 220 00:25:58.380 --> 00:26:11.380 is operating quite legally, according to the system and according to the guidelines set up, and the affair, I suspect, is largely a come-on, I think, or a put-on. 221 00:26:11.380 --> 00:26:19.380 I think what they're attempting to do is merely to dramatize the nature of the system itself, wherein this could be done by anyone. 222 00:26:19.380 --> 00:26:26.380 Any group of people who wanted to move into a sparsely settled place could do so, and ultimately take over. 223 00:26:26.380 --> 00:26:32.180 Then there is, of course, the Women's Liberation Front. Here we have a group of rather militant 224 00:26:32.180 --> 00:26:40.540 women. They are not trying to overturn anything, excepting laws that tend to give males advantage 225 00:26:40.540 --> 00:26:45.920 over them, or possibly even laws that give them advantage over males. But they are operating 226 00:26:45.920 --> 00:26:52.660 not to obtain total power, but to obtain reform through the use of power within the system. 227 00:26:52.660 --> 00:26:57.140 Their group would be the John Birch Society aimed similarly, that is, they are seeking 228 00:26:57.140 --> 00:27:03.340 essentially to have laws enacted to operate within the system and to retain the system, 229 00:27:03.340 --> 00:27:09.100 but fundamentally to do it by obtaining power that will be used as they wish it. Along with 230 00:27:09.100 --> 00:27:15.140 this would be the SDS generally and other various splinter groups. 231 00:27:15.140 --> 00:27:22.040 Today there is a repolarization of thought. And again, let me stress, there really is 232 00:27:22.040 --> 00:27:28.880 is just one revolution. And that is the real revolution, the revolution that proposes not 233 00:27:28.880 --> 00:27:36.040 to switch power and move it from one group into another, but it proposes to diminish 234 00:27:36.040 --> 00:27:41.120 the centers of power so that men can be free as individuals. Thank you.