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...reason is the American egalitarian ideology. Several studies in The White Majority show how workers believe in social mobility and tend to blame themselves rather than the system for their lack of status, wealth and power. Even though the hypothesis of such social mobility contradicts the white majority's everyday reality, the old myths die hard. The widespread beliefs that America is an open society where everyone has an equal chance and that failure is because of individual weakness and not system bias greatly impede working-class development and militant action. Thus is the system constantly reinforced. Horatio Alger...
...instead of a president," he wrote last fall, "will aggravate rather than lessen the inefficiency of the administration and the bickering of the already dissociated chiefs." Still, from his booklined study on a shaded Belgrade street, he pronounces himself pleased with the divorce of the Communist Party from everyday government affairs and the liberation of the economy from bureaucratic party controls. "You see," he told TIME Correspondent David Tinnin, "in Yugoslavia, the problem was that bureaucracy was in conflict with life, and in the end life prevailed...
There is an uncommon morning freshness to this movement, a buoyant atmosphere of hope and love along with the usual rebel zeal. Some converts seem to enjoy translating their new faith into everyday life, like those who answer the phone with "Jesus loves you" instead...
...indicates that love is not equally wonderful to everybody, and the "great many ways" recognizes that virtually nothing in the world happens "in every way." All this may seem obvious. Nevertheless it contains a significant relativist philosophy and much wisdom about the errors, even the insanities, hidden in everyday speech...
...young photographer about whom a fictional film is being made. This conception is close to-although more advanced than-the form-within-a-form principle of David Holzman's Diary, the quasi-existential journal of a filmmaker who tries "to make sense" out of his life by collecting private everyday images (and sounds) which, we discover in the final credits, are really just made-up banalities (as opposed to "real" banalities), scripted, acted, shot, and directed by Jim McBride and several other people. Available Light, by contrast, reiterates the factual relativism of every image, explicitly calling attention to the manipulative...