Word: powerlessness
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Hence for Ford it is the banks--large, powerful, mechanical things--that are running the show, and the people are powerless. The banks want a limitless "blank check" from the government to help them "escape responsibility" and "be further excused from making the hard decisions." If the fiscal crisis has made New York disorderly, irresponsible, weak and dishonest, it is precisely because the city is no longer a community of people, but an agglomeration of institutions. New York bankers and officials are "desperate," but the people will not be "stampeded" by them. If Ford's attack on the banks...
...Even Mrs. Perón's closest adviser, Angel F. Robledo, who as Interior Minister emerged as the new strongman during her absence, admits as much. "It doesn't matter who is interim President," he said. "Even if it were Winston Churchill, he would still be powerless because of the uncertainty...
...Social resentment, which measures increases in the number of Americans who are angry about recent social trends but feel powerless to change them, rose to 37%, the highest point since April 1974, when 27% were found to be resentful in the first Soundings taken...
...working class of students, mainly in the state schools and community colleges, whose future white-collar work strangely resembles what used to be considered demeaning manual labor. For students of the sixties and seventies, the lonely competitive present opens out on a future which is limited to powerless work in the lower or middle reaches of corporate or government hierarchy and a dull routine of working a key punch or a slide rule (even if one happens to understand Schopenhauer thanks to a college course...
DuChamp realized half a century earlier that an authentic aesthetic response is weak and powerless in the face of the pressure of public opinion. To most of us, an authentic aesthetic response is that ineffable "gut feeling," which in this age of narcissistic fiction, is resurrected to onanistic worship. But a gut feeling, exactly because its vague origin, which is so often confused with mystic truthfulness, is associational in its logic. The shudder of revulsion that comes when viewing a Lichtenstein is probably not an artistic response, but an externally motivated one, prompted by the antibourgeois biases of contemporary culture...