Work teams, production brigades, radical cadres, and the Geological Institute Mao Zedong Thought Combat Regiment took up arms and poster polemics against poisonous weeds, running dogs, "sinister henchmen," "fat revisionists," right deviationists, traitors, renegades, scabs and swindlers, bandit gangs, "monsters and freaks," Trotskyism, "eclecticism," "unprincipled practicalism," and "myopic
routinism." They cleansed class ranks, smashed ministries of culture, and either rectified or liquidated the Sixteen Points, the Ten Indictments, the five black categories, the four olds, the "three loyalties," and the "two whatevers." So delusional was this system of rhetorics--so autistic, abusive, and paranoid-schizophrenic--that one is tempted to call it an extraordinary rendition.
Third, the inevitable corruption of the city--through over-institutionalizing the process of human interchange and a "
routinism" that reduces warm personal contact between individuals--will lead the culture to revert to another agricultural phase and another round of growth and decline.