WHAT DO WE DO NEXT?
What Do We Do Next? On any given morning, the case for getting out of bed can be a chancy proposition at best. The great march of recent history, including the popular landslides which gave...
...It is with this thought in mind that The Washington Monthly offers its guide for those who have decided to get out of bed...
...In walking out the door you enter the world of other people and thereby take responsibility for your dealings with them...
...The second, by Charles Peters (which, like the first, represents the combined efforts of many people who write for this magazine), explains why so much of our current plight traces back to the kind of jobs we've gotten nvolved in, and how more of us could break free into a form of enterprise the country desperately needs...
...The great march of recent history, including the popular landslides which gave us Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, tends to make pulling off the covers a 51-49 proposition...
...The final article, from a new book by David Hapgood, confronts one of the facts all too rarely facedthat each of us has an angle in the nationwide system of screwing the other guy, and until we are all ready to admit that fact and act on its consequences, we will not move far at all...
...You also assume some responsibility for at least trying to make sense of what the government is doing in your name...
...One reason is the national Watergate festivities and all the "clean government" excitement it has left us with (in several important primaries this year, the main issue seemed to be how much the candidates had, or had'nt, spent...
...The four articles in this section attempt to deal with the problem from different points of view...
...The first, by Thomas Redburn, outlines some of the programmatic priorities we might keep in mind during this year's elections, in 1975, and when choosing a President in 1976...
...We do so from a concern that during the last two years the "issues" and "goals" have become even more muddled than usual...
...A third ny Walter Shapiro examines that pathetic symbol of government indifference to enterprise, the Small Business Administration...
...But once you've decided to get up, you commit yourself to a whole series of consequences...
Vol. 6 • October 1974 • No. 8
