aworldsman
12th September 2011, 05:44
...something along the lines of a modern-day Common Sense targeting the common worker. What would your table of contents look like?
Mine would look like this:
1: Introduction
A brief articulation of the vague tension that taints our social atmosphere. Starting with a story to arouse a sense of discomfort or curiosity. Maybe The Wild and Free Pigs of the Okefenokee Swamp (I can't post links yet).
2: Problems
Start with a brief history of the US. Slimmed down version of Zinn's History. Give the reader some context for the present and future. Make it easy for the reader to question the integrity of the USA, starting with its founding fathers.
Dig into present tragedies. Foreign/domestic policy, military adventurism, manufactured consent, education, health care, pharma, etc. Show the reader that Parties are just wings of the same monster. How the president is just a megaphone, not to be hated but pitied. Explain how the federal reserve works in layman's terms. Explain how the various institutions of our social system are destructively intertwined. Decipher the world for the reader.
Pose the problem of solving these issues with a new society.
3: Solutions
Offer the reader a vision of a potential future.
4: Methods
Show the reader how we can bridge the gap using illegal and legal, violent and nonviolent methods. Invite them to action. Agitate. Use history to show what's worked, what hasn't. A brief comparative analysis of revolution. A list of tactics.
This wouldn't be presented as vanguard. Just as one manifestation of our desire for freedom.
How would yours look?
Mine would look like this:
1: Introduction
A brief articulation of the vague tension that taints our social atmosphere. Starting with a story to arouse a sense of discomfort or curiosity. Maybe The Wild and Free Pigs of the Okefenokee Swamp (I can't post links yet).
2: Problems
Start with a brief history of the US. Slimmed down version of Zinn's History. Give the reader some context for the present and future. Make it easy for the reader to question the integrity of the USA, starting with its founding fathers.
Dig into present tragedies. Foreign/domestic policy, military adventurism, manufactured consent, education, health care, pharma, etc. Show the reader that Parties are just wings of the same monster. How the president is just a megaphone, not to be hated but pitied. Explain how the federal reserve works in layman's terms. Explain how the various institutions of our social system are destructively intertwined. Decipher the world for the reader.
Pose the problem of solving these issues with a new society.
3: Solutions
Offer the reader a vision of a potential future.
4: Methods
Show the reader how we can bridge the gap using illegal and legal, violent and nonviolent methods. Invite them to action. Agitate. Use history to show what's worked, what hasn't. A brief comparative analysis of revolution. A list of tactics.
This wouldn't be presented as vanguard. Just as one manifestation of our desire for freedom.
How would yours look?