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...by James Mason
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There is no question that there has GOT to be some form of Movement– however rudimentary– already in existence prior to any major disruption in national communication if we are to hope for any success over all others whose whole ideology is bound up in the assumption of the continuation of the present System.
We have all the elements. It can be done and MUST be done. If I were to name a handful of the chief bugaboos which have consistently fouled up the many past efforts toward establishing a true Movement, one of the primary ones would surely be the perennial phenomenon of the personality clash. Two people, or two or more cliques of people, who just aren't personally compatible, who surely would make for a lousy marriage, but who, in the end, just aren't DISCIPLINED or DEDICATED enough to realize what the hell they are supposed to be doing. Of course it only takes one-half of a personality clash to foul up the entire works and create unnecessary division and, nine times out of ten, a case of utterly insane fraternal back-biting. A case of two types of people: those too busy doing their jobs to play games, whom others love to seek out as "enemies"; and those who are so ineffectual at fighting the real Enemy they need to pick on someone more their own size and infinitely "safer", i.e. someone in the Movement.
Now it may be reasonably argued that, in reference to the latter group, anyone so terminally stupid as that can't legitimately be thought of as being part of the Movement. It may sound logical, but it is too easy. Too easy because it takes in most of those who make up the present Movement. So at second glance, one answer appears to me: A form of elitism– as distinctly opposed to snobbery– by which those among that former group mentioned in the above paragraph, after identifying one another positively, get together on a cordial yet working basis and take concrete steps to guard themselves and their efforts against the idiotic machinations of the latter group (which could perhaps more accurately be looked upon as a misplaced and mutinous rank-and-file with completely false pretenses to leadership). In other words, exercise their unified superiority, take the direction and control of the Movement OUT of the hands of the second group and, through proper techniques of organization and management, put the rank-and-file types BACK TO WORK where they belong.
The breakdown in leadership has gone on for too long and is having the effect of wearing down the Movement in all areas for lack of direction. The time has come for the actual, natural leadership of the Movement to, of their own initiative, come together and actually form that much-talked-of LEADERSHIP CADRE, the first of many to come, and put this Movement on track and MAKE something of it!
[Vol. XI, #2 – Feb., 1982]
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