Word: roszak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real difference. But what does it come to? A friend of mine recently decided that the only meaningful revolution will come when people refuse to submit to the Rules. (Dropping out of the Rules to transform, the Society that made Them.) Greater theorists have reached similar conclusions: Marcuse, now Roszak. A significant refusal requires revolutionary courage and action by many people. But there are few revolutionaries...
...Roszak is undeniably right on one point, though. The vital question is not "how shall we know?", but "how shall we live...
...Roszak especially treasures the visionary experience of great artists and poets. But he means even more than that. Taking the counter culture's naturalistic impulses to their extreme, he calls for a new adoption of what Buber called "pansacramentalism," a deep, mystical appreciation for all beings, animate and inanimate...
SUCH IDEAS seem ridiculous to objective radicals. They don't understand that reality is catching up with them. Roszak quotes an old Indian woman who asks, "How can the spirit of the earth like the white man?" Now, we all know there is no "spirit of the earth." Nevertheless, the answer to the woman's question is that it doesn't like the white...
...Roszak doesn't consider all of this; he worries that the technocracy will succeed in reducing all men to automatons, forevermore. No chance. It is too late now. Even the technocracy cannot save itself from...