Bob Dobbs’ Bottom Up Chart

BOTTOM/UP IDENTITY—THE CULTURAL HERO (IN THE WEST)
GROUND FIGURES
SECRET GOVERNMENT POPULAR ARTFORM HIGHBROW ARTFORM TECHNOLOGICAL ARTFORM POPULAR ARCHETYPE
(User as Monarch of)
GHETTO
(Drop-out)
SYMPTOMS
GLOBAL VILLAGE
Phonetic Alphabet & Papyrus Christ Plato & Aristotle Spoken Word Tribe Family Caesar
Print (Movable Type) Shakespeare Francis Bacon Manuscript Village Tribe Luther
Industrial Revolution Dickens Darwin, Marx Printed Book Town Village Luddites
Electronic Revolution Joyce Einstein, Freud Newspaper City Town Al Capone
GLOBAL THEATER
Television a) Elvis
b) Fellini
Existentialism a) Radio
b) Movies
Nation City McCarthyism
Computer a) Beatles
b) Psychedelia
a) Norman Mailer
b) Marshall McLuhan
a) B&W TV
b) Color TV
Planet Nation JFK Assassination
Satellite a) Punk Rock/New Wave
b) Sat. Night Live
c) Cults
a) Club of Rome
b) Club of Life
c) Genetic Engineering
a) Computer
b & c) Mixed Corporate-Media
Solar System Planet Watergate
Second Coming Ronald Reagan & Pope John Paul II Furry Lint Mass Man Universe Outer Space Battle of the Harvest Moon

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