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...said they were pretty sure the Cultural Revolution had broken bureaucratic habits for good. They mostly explained that regularly scheduled elections to the revolutionary committees might well be a good thing--they were originally set up, after all, by mass meetings of people dissatisfied with the old kind of top-down bureaucratic control--but they mostly said that basically, everything is fine. Some other people--especially younger ones--seemed less sanguine, though. "People age who were in high school when the Cultural Revolution started talk about politics all the time," one young woman said, "But maybe things are more back...
...frustration of these campaigns is easy to understand. Questions of good faith aside, the Administration knows that even in a highly tense situation, the energy behind ad hoc student coalitions eventually diffuses. Activists are left pleading for a top-down revolution, for an imperial bestowal of democratic privileges from the Faculty to the students...
Without the blueprints, which do not now exist, the next part of my plan is meaningless. For that plan is to run on the blueprints in every possible Democratic primary, from precinct to President. In fact, it is essential that candidates be running at all levels on every occasion. Top-down is no good. Grass roots alone is not good enough...
...must take a very hard look at what Jones has to offer us, despite his intentions, He assumes in the school the same four walls, the same systems of top-down authority, the same interpersonal relationships between students and teacher. He says that all is up to the teachers, not the experts, but he implies in the very nature of his book that it is up to the experts to provide theories, materials, and methods for the schools and the teachers. His own expert prescription for the problems of the schools is yet another theoretical elixir of little practical...
Bundy really conceives of top-down action in social matters. The government must take autonomous action in the public interest which can then be justified to a sluggish populace in terms of the government's general authority to act. This is why Bundy put so much emphasis on the need to educate the public to accept a wider role for the government. The people must be like passengers in a bus who give the driver authority to take them by any route he chooses to a chosen destination...