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Show Acting Alone Page 392 precarious balance of patriotism as against faddish decadence in today's youth, and have them ready to mobilize overnight for whatever thing Reagan/Weinberger/Haig decided to do in El Salvador or Poland or Lebanon, or wherever they cared to show the Soviets what's-what. Our sense of responsibilty to civil defense and law enforcement and free enterprise would revive. Who was it, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, or one of those other romantic philosophers, who said words to this effect: "Let me control a nation's poets, and I can control the entire nation"? The inevitable period of adjustment and social unrest - sixties revisited and inverted: right on the unofficial side of the barricades this time - would result in more converts to the Elder's beloved church. The Double- Pronged Earthly and Unearthly Good would thus be set in action once again, rolling along more powerfully than ever before, as people cleaved to Christ's bosom as a self-defense mechanism. All this would not be initiating any action; it would merely be speeding an already initiated action on its way. One has only to talk to a random sampling of today's youth, the individuals younger than Sammy and his Jewish comrade, the individuals of the late Mr. Wamsutter's generation, to know that the counterinsurgency is already in its late-embryonic stages. For example, were it up to Sammy's former students (or, at least the ones who'd volunteered to come forward and speak with "KBI" investigators), the communist creature who so savagely shot our president, our Reagan, would have been beheaded live on prime-time tv that same evening, with instant replays in slow motion preempting the rest of the night's programming. |