The leadership of both the Ghost Dance and the Cubist movement had these elements in common: A charismatic, gifted leader who described cultural changes which should be made; Two or more respected citizens who testified that this leader was not a lunatic, but was well worth listening to; A glib, personable explainer, who told the general public what the leader was up to, why he was so wonderful, and so on, day after day. Turns out that such a table of organization worked pretty well for Adolf Hitler, too, and maybe for Robert Maynard Hutchins, when he turned this place inside out and upside
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