Word: greatly
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...myth," Roszak means "that collectively created thing which crystallizes the great, central values of a culture." As the sine qua non of all scientific knowledge, objective consciousness is the foundation upon which the technocracy has built its citadel. Even in our most private lives, we pay homage to that citadel all the time...
...most part, youth who consider themselves "apolitical": former New Leftists, hippies, heads, cultists of Eastern philosophy, and communalists; some members of the rock scene, the underground press, the encounter movement, and the free universities. They could be many, for they draw their ranks from the children of the Great Middle Class, who are strung out in adolescence between a permissive childhood and a regimented adulthood, who have been in on American quantitative abundance and want out. So far, though, they are relatively...
...short run, there is only one effective sort of action that the counter culture (and for that matter, everybody) can take in oppositon to the ultimate acsendancy of technocratic totalitarianism: in Marcuse's words, the "Great Refusal...
...action: they are in a position to ruin the technocracy's system of self-preservation and fairly secure of the necessities of life if they try. It is time to stop tolerating such important strictures as selective admissions, examinations, grades, depart-mentalization, and degrees. This will require action by great numbers of people, but it simply must be done...
...Belmont, Newton, etc.-and they came into Cambridge only for lectures and their individual research projects. As Pusey said at the time, "When I first arrived here, I was distressed to find so few Faculty members, especially the young instructors, actually lived in Cambridge. I think we lose a great deal when our Faculty gets spread out over a wide area...