Indeed the Establishment is often very cloudy on what its ideas are or what it is trying to do. But as a government gets old and desperate its main idea is that “Any dissenting opinion must be smashed.”

      The Czar's government went the route that way. Students proposed reforms. The government and its press began to attack students, lie about them, ridicule them, accuse them of treason. The students demonstrated. The government increased police appropriations. The students protested. The government appointed an even more vicious head of their secret police. The students began to assassinate officials. The government began to torture student prisoners. And then BANG the populace revolted, the Czar was executed and the Communist Party took over Russia.

      Nobody, but nobody ever asked the government “WHAT ideas are you supporting?” Nobody ever really asked the students “What do you object to really and how can it be reformed if it exists?”

      And nobody published it.

      There is no machinery in the Establishment for mediation with the people. They depend upon “elections” or polls. But they haven't got a Dept A to which a minority can go and say “Look, your idea of financing psychiatric death camps is messing things up.”

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