Global Research Assembly July 19, 1976

WINDMILLS OF CHANGE

Winds of change are whirling round and round every piece of geo­social turf in the world today. The Global Servant Force­­TWC­­has set itself to the task of capturing those winds in forms that release masses of people to make a new decision about their creative embracement and participation in those winds. They would become a Windmill as it were for turning spirit into matter and grinding matter into spirit.

Within any piece of geo­social turf in the world are appearing four kinds of leadership as we advance with Town Meeting and Social Demonstration and Funding. They are: 1, the local leadership beneath all organizations whatsoever; 2, the 1iberated groups­­blacks, women, etc.­­who as groups are out to lead; 3, the established leadership of the communities' institutions; 4, the celebrities and kingmakers who sustain but rarely intervene in public life. One way or another each of these groups is getting involved in our Campaigns of Town Meeting and Global Social Demonstration as those campaigns infiltrate every last shred of_ geo­social turf on the planet.

The contradiction the Local Leadership finds itself overagainst is something like knowing local people have an operating consensus but have no way to see celebrate or enact that hidden iceberg of a consensus­­ call it: No working consensus expressed beyond the ideological differences within the community.

The contradiction Liberated Groups find themselves overagainst is something like being ready to move but being at the same time so trapped in Macro­think they have no grass­roots method of making their decisions, forming their action, or imaging their servanthood non­moralistically­­call it: Macro­think trap.

The contradiction Established Leadership finds itself overagainst is something like they have had their nose so close to the grindstone of history so long with no let up and no spirit tools that they have absolutely nothing left of any vision or hope for the very situations and people they are supposed to be caring for, they need a real vacation not a trip to some mountain­­call it: Loss of the means of detachment.

The contradiction Kingmakers and Celebrities find themselves overagainst is something like an experience of withdrawal across the board from public, philanthropic, or service endeavors as they observe the immorality and brokenness of emerging forms of 21st century life­­call it: the disappearance of public spirit and a withdrawal from winning.

The following chart indicates the four Windmill arms of mission that can capture these people being blown by the winds of change in our time, and turn them into New Community on behalf of mankind picking up again responsibility for its destiny. To Local Leadership with Town Meeting we give them the means of consensus. To Liberated Groups with Special Town Meetings we give them the methods of indicative servanthood. To Established Leadership with Global Social Demonstration Consult and Repository participation we give them the means of authentic detachment and renewal of vision. To Kingmakers and Celebrities with Funding Campaigns we give them an authentic occasion for public engagement.

Each of these four Campaigns goes on within any piece of geo­social turf and in each the making of appointments and doing of appointments is becoming the touchstone of soldiership in the campaigns. Therefore, increasingly some twelve appointment making/going machines are showing up in our pieces of geo­social turf.