In Howard Zinn's book, A Peoples History of the United States, I
thought the following was Germaine to today's news.
Carl Jarvis
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...In a highly developed society, the Establishment cannot survive
without the obedience and loyalty of millions of people who are given
small rewards to keep the system going. The soldiers and police, the
teachers and ministers, administrators and social workers, technicians
and production workers, doctors, lawyers, and nurses, transport and
communications workers, garbage men and firemen. These people, the
employed, the somewhat privileged, are drawn into alliance with the
elite. They become the guards of the system. Buffers between the
Upper and Lower Classes. If they stop obeying, the system falls.
That will happen, I think, only when all of us who are slightly
privileged and slightly uneasy begin to see that we are like the
guards in the prison uprising at Attica. Expendable. That the
Establishment, whatever rewards it gives us, will also, if necessary
to maintain its control, kill us.
