"The United States and The Middle Class Crisis" CTTM Bookclub Tragedy & Hope Ch. 20, pt. 2 - 3/7/25

What does Jacques Attali write about the middle class in A Brief History of the Future? - Middle class and aspirational values as seen in the movie, What a Way to Go. - Feudalism, the aristocracy and peasants. Movie, The Lion in Winter - When was the 'alien' middle class introduced? - What was the social background of Alan Watt and what are some observations he made about the challenges and values of that world? - The importance of status and status symbols to middle class Americans in the mid-20th century. - Middle class values are artificial, based on the consumption of fantasy. - What can we learn by studying Carroll Quigley's Last Will and Testament and Codicils?

Cutting Through the Matrix
https://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/

Carroll Quigley - Misc.
http://www.carrollquigley.net/misc.htm

Carroll Quigley - Profiles in Humility
http://www.carrollquigley.net/pdf/Jules_Davids-Profiles_in_Humility.pdf

Quigley - Correspondence - Terrence Boyle and Father Healy
http://www.carrollquigley.net/pdf/Correspondence-Terrence_Boyle-Father_Healy_1977.pdf

Quigley - Compromise of Will Contest 1977
http://www.carrollquigley.net/pdf/Carroll-Quigley-Compromise-of-Will-Contest-1977.pdf

Quigley/Veit Compromise Agreement
http://www.carrollquigley.net/pdf/Quigley-Veit-Compromise_Agreement.pdf

Quigley - Probate Petition
http://www.carrollquigley.net/pdf/Probate_Petition.pdf

Quigley - Will 1973
http://www.carrollquigley.net/pdf/Carroll-Quigley-Will-1973.pdf

Quigley - Codicil 1963
http://www.carrollquigley.net/pdf/Carroll-Quigley-Codicil-1963.pdf

Quigley - Will 1960
http://www.carrollquigley.net/pdf/Carroll-Quigley-Will-1960.pdf

Quigley - Some Aspects of His Last Twelve Years
http://www.carrollquigley.net/biography/Carroll_Quigley-Some_Aspects_of_His_Last_Twelve_Years.htm

Quigley - Another Side of a Reflective Man
http://www.carrollquigley.net/biography/Quigley-Another-Side-of-a-Reflective-Man.htm

Quigley - The Improbable Dr. Quigley
http://www.carrollquigley.net/biography/The_Improbable_Dr_Quigley.htm

Quigley - Lillian Quigley and Tom Quigley Obituaries
http://www.carrollquigley.net/pdf/Lillian-Tom-Obituaries.pdf

Carroll Quigley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll_Quigley

Book Club - Tragedy and Hope - by Not Sure
https://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/articles/Book_Club_Tragedy_and_Hope.htm

The Steamie (1988)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27jOJZpdIjs