days a week, getting overtime, sick leave, vacation and health care at work. They couldn't see why they should pay union dues. This generation can't see why you need to maintain your roads; they've never seen the world without good roads. c. Cornucopia? I'd like something less upbeat. Maybe a deluge. I had a mentor who repeated "there are two kinds of power -- money power and people power -- and people power can beat money power every time; that why the money is spent to divide people power". I think that's still true. What we have not figured out at a practical action level is how to fight the divisive power of the incredible amounts of money that are being spent in propaganda and in the paramilitary equipment of repression. And I am beginning to think that it is because we are so busy repeating the mantra "ain't it awful" that we are not figuring out how to get out of this fix. Thanks. The planners thought continuing war necessary to subduing the left, sedating the population, undercutting commies, managing the former European colonies (and Europe), maintaining hegemony, and enforcing extraction. Yes, it required winning a World War and that advantage lasted a measly generation; clearly it had a bastard's genesis. Go ahead, put that at the top of the list. Your mentor has an excellent point. And that money IS spent to divide us. Think of all the money spent to make any differences clear and to exaggerate