Chapter 54 beat generation americans

Facing growing urban decay, President Johnson signed the Equal Opportunity Act on August 20, 1964.In signing the law, the president boasted in typical bravado: "Today, for the first time in human history, a great people is able and willing to make a commitment to eradicate poverty." His so-called "war on poverty" and Rather than eradicating poverty, Johnson's Great Society plan provided a new excuse for the largest deficit growth and financial plunder in modern history, which was in fact financed by Eurodollar surpluses. In the mid-1960s, millions of young Americans flocked to college in droves, a manifestation of "hidden unemployment," as the number of college students rose from less than 4 million in 1960 to almost 10 million in 1975 .This provided an excuse for Wall Street to issue billions of dollars in additional state-guaranteed debt for university construction.Investments in the expansion of the industrial economy began to shift to the "post-industrial" or "service economy", which is similar to the decline of Britain at the end of the 19th century.Social Security and welfare costs have increased, while segments of every social class are permanently unemployed.

In 1966, NASA's space program spending peaked at $6 billion, and Johnson cut it back every year thereafter.Tech momentum at American universities began to stagnate, then decline.At the same time, students are encouraged to use "social connections" or seek jobs through worshiping gods and Buddhas.College education, once central to the "American Dream," turned into low-quality mass production in the 1960s as standards were deliberately lowered. As part of the overall economy, investment in transportation, electrical and electrical equipment, water systems, and other essential infrastructure is deteriorating.The New York banker reasoned that if you no longer cared about producing industrial goods, why bother investing in building roads and bridges and bringing products to market?

In the 1960s, in order to sell a policy of not actually investing in the US economy, Anglo-American think tanks took a long-term view and believed that the traditional US investment in technology and industrial progress must be changed. The Vietnam War, the lifting of narcotics, and the sexual "flowerpower" counterculture of Aldous Huxley and Timothy Leary, that's what part of the Anglo-American liberal establishment was promoting.In a top-secret CIA research program code-named MKUltra, British and American scientists experimented with hallucinogens and other mood-altering drugs.By the mid-1960s, the project had sparked what became known as the Hippie movement, sometimes referred to as "New Age Thinking" or the "Age of Aquarius."The heroes of the day were rock and drug advocates such as the Rolling Stones and Jim Morrison and author and drug addict Ken Kesey.Mystical irrationality is replacing technological progress and fast becoming the belief of tens of millions of young Americans.

While the Johnson administration embraced Wall Street's "post-industrial" policies, it reduced spending on technological and industrial progress.A young and up-and-coming elite, preoccupied with personal pleasure and cynical about national goals, began to appear on American university campuses, beginning with Harvard, Princeton, and a few other so-called elite universities.Harvard University professor Timothy Li Lei once described them with the influential twelve-character mantra, that is, "open your heart, follow your feelings, and reject the mainstream." In an effort to reshape the minds of American corporations and industry, managers are also receiving a new type of training called "T-group sessions" or "sensitivity training," delivered by outside psychologists at the National Training Laboratory.The effect of this is to dull the intellect and prepare people for the oncoming shock.People are preoccupied with increasing their understanding and sensitivity to each other's flaws so they don't see the country losing its purpose.

In 1968, when Senator Robert Kennedy was on the verge of winning the Democratic National Convention and posing a threat to certain interest groups, he was assassinated by a "lone killer" in Los Angeles.That same year, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated outside his motel in Memphis.Few realized the strategic context in which King was killed.He had come to Memphis to support a strike by the city's black workers, a strike that was pushing unorganized Southern workers to unionize.During the period of "factory relocation" that followed the 1957 depression, the "cheap labor" of the American South was yet another haven for industrial production.At the time, unions controlled industrial centers such as Detroit, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and New York. As long as unions were kept out of the gates of the "New South," cheap labor in the South would persist.

Slums, drug addiction, and unemployment spread like a plague in the industrial cities of the North as big factories moved to the South for cheap labor without unions or to the developing world.Wall Street's policy of not investing in mature industrial America is starting to show real results.Skilled white blue-collar workers in northern cities had to compete with unskilled black and Hispanic workers for dwindling jobs.In industrial American cities like Newark, Boston, Philadelphia, and Oakland, government-backed rioters like Tom Haydon deliberately created riots.The idea was that, by labeling them racist, it would weaken the unions already established in northern cities.These domestic rioters are supported by the Ford Foundation's "Subpoor Areas Program", which is also a typical example of President Johnson's "War on Poverty".

President Johnson's "War on Poverty" campaign was funded by the government to take advantage of the recession caused by the policies of the Anglo-American establishment.The purpose of this is to break through resistance and introduce new wage cuts in the United States.American financial groups are preparing to impose the 19th-century British colonial plunder on the United States, and manipulating the "race war" will be their weapon. The fledgling U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity undercuts the political voice of traditional American labor and the influence of urban constituencies.White blue-collar industrial workers, revered as the source of America's industrial vitality only a decade ago, are suddenly branded "reactionary" and "racist" by the powerful liberal media.With the powerful banks' no-investment policy, these workers watched the entire social fabric crumble, filled with fear and confusion.

Dean of Harvard University, McGeorge Bundy, was involved in planning the Vietnam War as national security advisor to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson.By 1966, Bundy was in New York, where he was the head of the influential Ford Foundation, and he brought America into a new "Vietnam War."In this new "big society" plan, blacks compete with whites, the unemployed compete with the employed, while Wall Street bankers cut union-mandated wages, reduce infrastructure investment, and shift investment to Asia Or South America and other regions with cheap labor, making a lot of money.The author lived through this sad period of American history firsthand.