What is Rawls describing when he states that "in California, there is an ongoing dialectic in which new syntheses are born from the paradoxes of the past"?

He was describing the California dream which he referred to as a paradox of expectations.

He pointed out that the expectations of millions of people who migrate into California was raise as a result of the promises of the California Dream. He noted that these people hope that they will have a better life in California than the lives they had in their past.

today we'd use social media to quickly spread a controversial idea, but in the eighteenth century, the printed pamphlet was highly effective. and thomas paine took full advantage of it. on january 9, 1776, when paine published his pamphlet, "common sense," he wanted to push the american people toward independence from britain. it ultimately ignite the american revolution. thomas paine argued that the monarchy was evil and should be rejected as a form of government. to underscore his point, he cited the bible to argue his case -- in judges 8: 22-23: "the israelites said to gideon, 'rule over us, you and your son and your ' gideon told them, 'i will not rule over you. the lord will rule over you'" (nrsv).