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...Reich could have saved me much confusion if he had written Greening sooner. Consciousness III is not easy for one of my age (41) to get to, but well worth the effort. Consciousness IIIs smile a lot, hold doors, say hello, don't get frantic, and have an inner love and sense of humor that is delightful. They have, in short, found themselves. Obviously your reviewer has not reached this state...
...Your description of Reich's book was quite apt. Consciousness III appears to be quite unconscionable. He fails to explain adequately the downfall of civilizations such as Greece that may have become top-heavy with Consciousness III subcultures. While some childlike qualities are desirable, neither children nor a society characterized as childlike are capable of self-sufficiency or of being ever-renewing...
...TIME and Reich are both wrong. The Consciousness III generation is naturally childlike, since the preceding generation pressed upon it the spoils of the grossest self-consciousness and social unconsciousness that any generation has ever manifested; the "natural piety" TIME sees youth struggling for is simply the fear of growing up. TIME errs, however, in ridiculing the assumption that man is inherently good until corrupted by society; in a world in which some unscientific assumptions must still be made, man's basic goodness is possibly the most positive and urgent of them all. If we cannot believe that, given...
...attachments," he says. "The old, the ugly or the unwanted is simply made to disappear through a manhole." From the New Left comes the criticism that since the show's emphasis is on achievementlearning letters and numbersit is merely the bottom rung on the escalator to Charles Reich's Consciousness II. From the Old Guard comes the suspicion that the "switched-on" classroom is aimed at the eventual displacement of the teacher by an unsalaried cathode-ray tube...
NONFICTION 1. The Sensuous Woman, "J" (1) 2. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, Reuben (2) 3. Inside the Third Reich, Speer (3) 4. Future Shock, Toffler (4) 5. Body Language, Fast (6) 6. A White House Diary, Johnson 7. Papillon, Charriére (5) 8. Zelda, Milford (7) 9. The Greening of America, Reich 10. Don't Fall Off the Mountain, MacLaine