“it is not just Negroes but all of us, who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry,” he really meant all of us, including himself. This also includes many of the informants on FFL who like to call people "Hindus". ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <anartaxius@...> wrote :
Well, Johnson got a lot of legislation passed. He knew how to deal and had the leverage to do it. He did not use the concepts of transcendent or dharma in that speech. He never struck me as a spiritual person and his use of the word 'God' in the speech seems the perfunctory inclusion that seems to be required in American politics. And probably he only touched up a speech written by his speech writers anyway. Non sequitur. And he was a racist in spite of all of that: Lyndon Johnson was a civil rights hero. But also a racist. http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lyndon-johnson-civil-rights-racism http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lyndon-johnson-civil-rights-racism Lyndon Johnson was a civil rights hero. But also a racis... http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lyndon-johnson-civil-rights-racism Lyndon Johnson was a racist. He was also the greatest champion of racial equality to occupy the White House since Lincoln. View on www.msnbc.com http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lyndon-johnson-civil-rights-racism Preview by Yahoo The office a man holds sometimes allows him to rise above his baser instincts. However in spite of all this, the events of the last half year or so show that what he accomplished has not erased the problems of race or poverty, of inequality; if anything they have taken on a more intense and subtle mantle of discord in this country. From: "dhamiltony2k5@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 2:04 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The Culture of Organizational Groups/Sociology LBJ is actually a good example of the rhetoric of leadership within millenarian revolution. [notice spelling with one 'n', not millennial] change. For instance LBJ's articulation of transcendent and larger promises in America of an evolving dharma-like progression of equal rights for all. Gathering people in, see what and how he said it. Read a few of the first few paragraphs where he lays things out and see how he reaches for it in rhetoric. He was quite successful with “The Great Society” and then with civil rights and voting rights legislation in turn. Was a remarkable point of leadership in broad cultural change. Time was ripe and he led rhetorically. Text of “The American Promise”.. President Lyndon B. Johnson's Special Message to the Congress: The American Promise March 15, 1965 http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/650315.asp President Lyndon B. Johnson's Special Message to the Congress: The American Promise March 15,... http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/650315.asp President Lyndon B. Johnson's Special Message to the Congress: The American Promise March 15, 1965 [As delivered in person before a joint session at 9:02 p.m.] View on www.lbjlib.utexas.edu http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/650315.asp Preview by Yahoo You can watch him deliver it on YouTube.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NvPhiuGZ6I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NvPhiuGZ6I ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : Anartaxius says here that millenarians, 'they seem to never take the direction and form intended'. Never? It could be well argued that these four millenarians created broad and lasting cultural changes, for instance. It is informative in an examination of organizations and their sociology to look at how in leadership they went about doing it, by contrast. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <anartaxius@...> wrote : Yes, Doug, but transformations occur in society almost as a matter of course, but they never seem to take the direction and character that those who believed there was an upcoming transition would have it. So having a belief, which is a pretence to knowledge, one's imagination of what might be or is, is simply a superfluous mental attitude that traps the mind in a particular rut while the world goes on its merry way. Obviously these beliefs, even if they are wrong which they tend to be, do have an influence on the progress of change because they alter a person's behaviour, but the underlying forces of change are not concerned with imagination. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : Mao, Maharishi with his 'Ideal Society', even LBj with his 'Great Society', also Roosevelt and the 'New Deal' by effect in culture were the larger 'revolutionary millenarians' of the last Century with their leadership towards creating 'Heavens on Earth'. As a study I find it informative to look at their speeches for the language that activated people and brought people along in revolution, by contrast with a TM movement of this Century which in its own character of leadership has been unable and in decline for 40 years. The contrast around 'inclusiveness' is stark. Millenarianism (also millenarism) is the belief by a religious, social, or political group or movement in a coming major transformation of society, after which all things will be changed. Millennialism http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennialism [by contrast] is a specific form of millenarianism based on a one-thousand-year cycle, which many sects of different religions believe. A Chaney, Princeton.edu http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Millenarianism.html http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Millenarianism.html Revolutionary as an adjective, the term revolutionary refers to something that has a major, sudden impact on society or on some aspect of human endeavor. Dictionary.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary
