Requiem for the American Dream Page #3

Warning them that business

is losing control over the society...

And something has to be done

to counter these forces.

Of course, he puts it

in terms of defense,

"defending ourselves

against an outside power."

But if you look at it,

it's a call for business to use

its control over resources

to carry out a major offensive

to beat back this democratizing

wave.

Over on the liberal side,

there's something exactly

similar.

The first major report of The Trilateral Commission

(is a non-governmental group founded

by David Rockefeller in July 1973)

is concerned with this.

It's called "the crisis of democracy."

Trilateral Commission

is liberal internationalists...

Their flavor is indicated

by the fact that

they pretty much staffed

the Carter administration.

They were also appalled by

the democratizing tendencies

of the '60s,

and thought

we have to react to it.

They were concerned that

there was an "excess of

democracy" developing.

Previously passive and obedient

parts of the population,

what are sometimes called,

"the special interests,"

were beginning to organize

and try to enter the political

arena,

and they said, "that imposes

too much pressure on the state.

It can't deal with all

these pressures."

So, therefore, they have

to return to passivity

and become depoliticized.

They were particularly concerned

with what was happening

to young people.

"The young people are getting

too free and independent."

None of us will

beget any violence.

If there's any violence,

it will be because of the police.

The way they

put it, there's failure on

the part of the schools,

the universities,

the churches...

The institutions responsible

for the "indoctrination

of the young."

Their phrase, not mine.

If you look at their study, there's one interest

they never mention... Privat business.

And that makes sense, they're

not special interest, they're

the national interest,

kind of by definition.

So they're okay.

They're allowed to, you know,

have lobbyists, buy campaigns,

staff the executive,

make decisions, that's fine.

But it's the rest, the special interests,

the general population,

who have to be subdued.

Well, that's the spectrum.

It's the kind of ideological

level of the backlash.

But the major backlash,

which was in parallel to this...

Was just redesigning

the economy.

Since the 1970s, there's been

a concerted effort on the part

of the masters of mankind,

the owners of the society,

to shift the economy

in two crucial respects.

One, to increase the role

of financial institutions,

banks, investment firms,

so on...

Insurance companies.

By 2007, right before

the latest crash,

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