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...This is the generation that has burned out many of its lights and lives before it is old enough to vote. "The first thing I realized was how different it is to go to high school today," wrote Maureen Orth in a "Last Supplement" to the Whole Earth Catalog. "Acid trips in the seventh grade, sex in the eighth, the Viet Nam War a daily serial on TV since you were nine, parents and school worse than 'irrelevant'?meaningless. No wonder Jesus is making a great comeback." The death of authority brought the curse of uncertainty. As Thomas Farber...
...deals comprehensively with brand-name products, nutrition, gardening, soaps, and garbage. Unfortunately it spends only twelve words discussing alternative life-styles as possible solutions to some of our ecological and psychic afflictions. So, important a reference work as it is, no library would be balanced without a Whole Earth Catalog -which is completely uncommitted to traditional styles and patterns of living. The catalog is designed to promote personal "power." Power to educate oneself, shape one's environment, and share one's experiences. You can buy the old but still fabulously valuable Fall 1969 catalog, which sold...
...they regard as the constriction, loneliness, materialism and the hypocrisy in straight society and the family life on which it is based. Yet some of the same old problems reappear?for example, the tug of war between individualism and submission to the group. One contributor to the Whole Earth Catalog summed up his own experience. "If the intentional community hopes to survive, it must be authoritarian, and if it is authoritarian, it offers no more free dom than conventional society. Those communes based on freedom inevitably fail, usually within a year...
...other nine diets, which are graduated from six to minus three to include increasing amounts of fish and vegetables -organically grown-along with brown rice. In actual practice, a good many youthful macrobiotics also eat meat. Explains Michel Abehsera, author of the cookbook recommended by the Whole Earth Catalog: "Meat finds its way into the Zen macrobiotic diet quite simply as a concession to man's sensual desires...
...room at Harvard. I fill out my study card and throw out my catalog...