TEACHER seeks pupil.  Must have an earnest desire to save the world.  Apply in person.
An earnest desire to save the world.   Oh, I like that.  That was rich indeed.  By noon, two hundred softheads, boobies, ninnyhammers, noodleheads, gawkies and assorted oafs and thickwits would doubtless be lined up at the address given, ready to turn over all their worldlies for the rare privilege of sitting at the feet of some guru pregnant with the news that all will be well if everyone will just turn around and give his neighbour a big hug.

The revolt had just dwindled away into a fashion statement.

In its place grew a scar.  A tough spot but a sore spot.

I had no concept of myself as captive.

Who of you wants to destroy the world?  
And yet you do destroy it, each of you.  Each of you contributes daily to the destruction of the world.
You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on  destroying the world in order to live.

60s:  They made an ingenuous and disorganized effort to escape from captivity but ultimately failed, because they were unable to find the bars of the cage.  If you can't discover what's keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual.
pomo: irony, laissez-faire la misere.

I must confess my sin:  I'm having impure thoughts about saving the world.
destructive punks, miserable daily grinders: tap into that energy, tap into that misery.
people in the laundromat talking about the end of the world, and they're no more excited than if they were comparing detergents

Leavers: anachronisms, fossils - people who just don't realize that their chapter of history is over.

Mother Culture has crooned you to sleep: 
'There, there, my child, there's nothing to worry about, nothing to think about'

record for posterity the curious folktales of a doomed culture

Creation Myth:  Big Bang/Evolution.  How the Leopard got its Spots
"It's not a myth.  It's fact."
No creation story is a myth to the people who tell it.  It's just the explanation.
story is ambient.  no need for explicit. it's
It's full of facts, but their arrangement is mythical.
Finally jellyfish appeared.
The pinnacle was reached in man.  Man is the climax of the whole cosmic drama of creation.
When man finally appeared, creation came to an end.
Since man appeared, all creation is anthropogenic.

ruler.
bound to screw up   because   garden of eden.

MARKET ANALYSIS:
MYTHS:
1.-we can't save the world (60s failed; inevitable forces)
-those who try to save the world are ninnyheads
-world wasn't created for us, but there's nothing better than consume-what-we-can
2.-hunter-gatherers wanted civilization but weren't smart enough to create it.
-without man, the world was unfinished, just nature, red in tooth and claw.  It was in chaos, in a state of primeval anarchy.  It needed someone to order it.  A Ruler.   (Shakespeare's Kings)
-to become fully human, to fulfill man's destiny of conquering and ruling the world, man had to pull himself out of the slime.  environmental sacrifice is the price we must pay to become human.
[it's the price of enacting a story that casts mankind as the enemy of the world]

POLITICAL MARKET ANALYSIS:
Privatization Myth:
Austerity Myth:
People deserve what they get Myth:

KINDERGARTEN:
(Harris get rid of)
mind experiences similar environment for too long;
mind learnt all bad habits.

DRAMA CRIT:
As the Takers see it, the gods gave man the same choice they gave Achilles: a brief life of glory or a long, uneventful life in obscurity.
cartesian/imperialist i think i do i capture   vs   shit happens