| INTRODUCTION: | Where it is Explained Why the Author, of all People, should Write such a Book. |
| Part One: POLITICAL SCIENCE IN THREE LESSONS: | The Amazing Complexity of Politics notwithslanding, the gentle Reader is Seduced into Imagining that three Pleasant Exercises will give to One adequate Mental Muscle. |
| Lesson Number 1: CLASSIC COMIC STRIPS: | Showing How the Author caftily Resorts to Cartoons to Conceal his Vagueness about Politics and then Slips In some mighty-fine Quotations to Show that he has Read the Great Masters. |
| Lesson Number 2: A MODEL OF POWER: | Here some Idiot Incidents of Ordinary Life are Built into an Imposing Edifice of honest-to-God Scientific Terms. |
| Lesson Number 3: ORGANIZED AND DlSORGANIZED POWER: | Whereupon, with Bewitching Symbols, the Pe son as the Center of Politics is Transformed into Huge Social Movements, so that the Reader in the End is found Riding on the Nose of a High-Thrust Rocket of Political Analysis, Navigating by Abstract Terminological Instruments. |
| Postscript to Part One: THE GOOD OF POLITICS: | Where the Reader sees that to Achieve a Good Society we need Good Activists with Know-How. |
| INTRODUCTION TO PART TWO: | In which it is Explained that Our Main Goal is no More nor Less than to Shape the Future, using Kalotic Characters to Create Representative Authorities that will Produce Universal Abundance and in which the Lucky Reader is given the Various and Sundry Principes that will Lead him ultimately to Utopia-and the End of the Book. |
| Chapter 1: POLITICAL PERSONALITY: | In which the Author goes in Search of the Personality that can run a Good Government and Finds it in Something called Benevolent and Polyvalent, said Type being Preferred to Rigid and Hostile Types and Encouraged to Flourish in all the Institutional Recesses of Ye Olde Societie. |
| Chapter 2: CIVIC ACTIVITY: | Wherein the Reader is Made to Feel that Nobody but Oneself is Watching the State of Affairs of State, and that We must Hustle Institutions to Bring their Members Willy-nilly into Political Life. |
| Chapter 3: LEADERSHIP: | How the Movers and Shakers are Imbedded in their Groups and can be Understood by Psyching Said Groups, which gives Some Ideas on how Everybody can Be a Leader. |
| Chapter 4: PUBLIC OPINION: | Insofar as the Troubles People Feel are Said to be mostly Personal and the Troubles of Government are Misunderstood as Belonging to somebody Else, it is No Surprise to see Indignant Ignoramuses often Taking Charge of Affairs. |
| Chapter 5: VICIOUS DISCRIMINATION: | The Reader is now Led to Believe that Societies historically have been Hotbeds of Prejudice (which is True) and Worse, that Women, Blacks, Youth, and Most of Us, in fact, are Made to Look like Asses so as to Make a Few People feel Great. |
| Chapter 6: SOCIETY AND GOVERNMENT: | Why, from Ancient Greece to Modern America, it Appears True that Human Relations lend their Color to Political Relations, and Hence that to Control the Latter We must Attend to the Former. |
| Chapter 7: GOVERNMENT ACTIVITIES: | Investigating All Manner of Behavior, Nice and Un-nice, the Author Begs his Readers to Consider that Governments have Done Everything in Times Past, Alas, and should be Curtailed by Divers and Clever Contrivances. |
| Chapter 8: GOVERNMENT STRUCTURES: | Where it is shown How Groups acquire Structures, which Structures then Bind Said Groups, and Wherefor it is Necessary to Provide Kalotic Bonds and also Means of Unbinding Groups that are Uptight and Unobliging. |
| Chapter 9: WEALTH AND LIFE STYLE: | Examining the Vaunted Progress of Material Life in Rich Countries, the Author is Impelled to Warn his Readers that they are Worse Off than they Think, for Sundry Reasons having to do with Mismanagement of Production, Concentration of Wealth, and Bizarre Taxation, and he Begs them to Adopt a Universal Credit Scheme, a Single Tax, and other Attractive Proposals. |
| Chapter 10: LAW AND JUSTICE: | Why the Process of Justice is Defective Six Ways is Irritably Explained, Whereupon a Radical Reorganization of the Legal System, including a Virtual Juridicature, is Outrightly Recommended. |
| Chapter 11: OBEDIENCE AND THE STATE: | How Obedience need not be Abused, and Chauvinism can be Tamed, and Wherein Mao was Right and Wrong, and Whence will come Relief from Oppression by Nuclear Weaponry. |
| Chapter 12: HISTORY OF THE FUTURE: | Inasmuch as New Movements in Politics that are Worthy must Rewrite History, the Author takes the First Step by Offering a Concise History of the United States of America, Located when Last Seen in Western Hemisphere, Planet Earth, and in the Hearts of his Countrymen. |
| Epilogue: POLITICS FOR THE BETTER: | in which, Despite the Pandemonium of the Present, the Author Foresees An Acceptable World Acoming, and with These Blessed Tidings, Bids his Readers Adieu. |
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