Word: materialistically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...saved only by concerted radical action directed at all portions of our exploited environment-the cities, the poverty, the wars, the hatred-that condemns us to lives of desperation. If the ecology movement can survive the strong pressures to emasculate its thrust, it can strike at the fragile materialist cooptation underpinning our wasteful industrial society. Otherwise, ecology as an issue will become a tool of the enemy...
...could he? Fascism, despair, hysteria, exploitation, economic anguish, war and the threat of war-all those things that Marx had taught him would herald the destruction of capitalism were all about him. What fell from Chambers, as he explained, was not merely Communism but "the whole web of the materialist modern mind-the luminous shroud which it has spun about the spirit of man, paralyzing in the name of rationalism the instinct of his soul for God, denying in the name of knowledge the reality of the soul...
...simplify what, and how? At the very moment when the U.S. is beginning to question its old materialist certainties, it is also facing urgent new demands for a better society -which can hardly begin to be financed without enormous continued material growth. Nothing is quite so expensive as idealism; that paradox may well shape the politics of the 1970s...