Teaching as a subversive activity

Goodman writes in Like a Conquered Province :
«The traditional American sentiment is that a decent society cannot be built by dominant official policy anyway, but only by grassroots resistance, community cooperation, individual enterprise, and citizenly vigilance to protect liberty … The question is wheter or not our beautiful libertarian, pluralist, and populist experiment is viable in modern conditions. If it’s not, I don’t know any other acceptable politics, and I am a man without a country. »

Is it possible that there are millions becoming men without a country ? Men who are increasingly removed from the sources of power ? Men who have fewer and fewer ideas available to them, and fewer and fewer ways of expressing themselves meaningfully and effectively? Might the frustration thus engendered be one of the causes of the increasing use of violence as a form of statement ?

Postman, N. & Weingartner, C., Teaching as a subversive activity, New York, Delacorte Press, 1969.