Rage against the Machine

2017-11-20

Prompt:

We're getting up close to present. So think about the Jobs (commencement address) and Port Huron Statement texts as historical objects. What in them:

  • Seems dated, alien, or otherwise not like something you would write today? Why?

  • OR

  • Seems like something people do say today, but you think is clearly wrong?

"Affluent Society": Fordism succesful

But control outsourced

So you've passed Civil Rights: Now what?

Lyndon Johnson (LBJ)

Johnson's Great Society

  • Civil Rights and Voting Rights (1964/1965)
  • Medicare: Health Insurance for elderly (1965)
  • Medicaid: Health Insurance for the poor (1965)
  • Immigration and Nationality Act (1965): No more quotas
  • Food Stamp Act: Nutrition for poor families, farm subsidies (1965)

Lyndon Johnson

King in Chicago

King in Chicago

Jesse Jackson and King

Busing in Charlotte

I think it is necessary for us to realize that we have moved from the era of civil rights to the era of human rights… [W]hen we see that there must be a radical redistribution of economic and political power, then we see that for the last twelve years we have been in a reform movement… That after Selma and the Voting Rights Bill, we moved into a new era, which must be an era of revolution…In short, we have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society.

King outlining the Poor People's Campaign

Mountaintop speech

Lorraine Motel

Jesse Jackson

Jesse Jackson

Obama and Jackson

The Counter Culture



Eisenhower, 1947

Eisenhower's Farewell Address 

Clark Kerr

Clark Kerr's "Multiversity"

'Not only must an administration preside over an institution with vastly increased and more complex relations with the outside world. The multiversity today can no longer be thought of as a single community, "like the medieval communities of masters and students," Kerr said. "A community should have common interests; in the multiversity they are quite varied, even conflicting. A community should have a soul, a single animating principle; the multiversity has several," he asserted.'

-Harvard Crimson, 1963.

Mario Savio, 1964

First Social Security Check

IBM 650, c. 1960

Computers in the mid-60s (IBM 650) 

Vietnam

Protestors

1968 Democratic Convention, Chicago

1968 Chicago

Black Separatism

DuBois in Africa



Pigasus the Immortal

1968 Chicago Convention