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. And he was a racist in spite of all of that:
Lyndon Johnson was a civil rights hero. But also a racist.
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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.
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LBJ is actually a good exampleof the rhetoric of leadership within millenarian
revolution. [notice spelling with one 'n', not millennial] change.
For instance LBJ's articulationof transcendent and larger promises in America
of an evolvingdharma-like progression of equal rights for all. Gathering
peoplein, see what and how he said it. Read a few of the first fewparagraphs
where he lays things out and see how he reaches for it inrhetoric.
He was quite successful with “The Great Society” andthen with civil rights and
voting rights legislation in turn. Was aremarkable point of leadership in broad
cultural change. Time was ripeand he led rhetorically.
Text of “The AmericanPromise”..
President Lyndon B. Johnson's Special Message to the Congress: The American
Promise March 15, 1965
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You can watch him deliver it on YouTube..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NvPhiuGZ6I
---In [email protected], <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote :
Anartaxiussays here that millenarians, 'they seem to never take the
directionand form intended'. Never? It could be well argued that these
fourmillenarians created broad and lasting cultural changes, forinstance. It is
informative in an examination of organizations andtheir sociology to look at
how in leadership they went about doingit, by contrast.
---In [email protected], <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 [email protected], <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 movementin a coming major transformation of society, after
which all thingswill be changed. Millennialism [by contrast] isa specific
form of millenarianism based on a one-thousand-year cycle,which many sects of
different religions believe. AChaney, Princeton.edu
http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Millenarianism.html
Revolutionary as an adjective, the term revolutionary refers to something that
has amajor, sudden impact on society or on some aspect of human
endeavor.Dictionary.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary
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