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CERTAINLY one need not hold an utterly materialist view of society to maintain that this is over-doing it. Why Hitler and not someone else? Why some strata and not others...
Cosmopolitan is frequently criticized for portraying as unreal a sex-charged world as Playboy, if a somewhat less affluent one. As in Playboy, children are not pictured; they interfere with the free, untrammeled sex life. "I'm a materialist," says Editor Brown, "and it's a materialistic world. Nobody is keeping a woman from doing everything she wants to do but herself." Certainly not Helen Gurley Brown...
...Does an "arrogant" Peace Corps stand guilty of cultural imperialism? In earlier decades it was undoubtedly possible to charge the majority of Americans abroad with a comprehensive package of sins. Motives, behavior and impact were paternal or imperialist, materialist or presumptuous. But to claim today that one draft dodging friend represents 14,000 colonialists in the Peace Corps world may be politely described as wrong. The role of those Americans has changed--not to a point of perfection, certainly, but to a point where perfection is a less impossible goal...
...what he calls "the immaterialist hypothesis," the theory that at some point in man's evolution, a supernatural factor entered and set man forever above lower orders of creation. This hypothesis, once generally held, and still held by orthodox Christians, is now challenged by widespread acceptance of the "materialist hypothesis"-the notion that man is merely a more complicated organism in a hierarchy of natural history extending down to the smallest bacterium...
Dancing on the Greensward. When Morris died in 1896 at 62, almost his last words were: "I want to get mum-bo-jumbo out of the world." He had put a good deal into it. His vision of a materialist Utopia with an art-craft peasantry, and Morris himself dancing on the greensward, bordered on the ridiculous. The masterpiece printed by his Kelmscott Press was a massive edition of Chaucer, illustrated by himself and the painter Burne-Jones. It cost ? 20- probably the equivalent of a half-year's wages of one of the men who toiled...