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...THEODORE ROSZAK...
...Greening of America, Charles Reich tried (and failed) to define this spiritual revolution: a mysticism of self-renewal that would save modern man from himself. In Where the Wasteland Ends, Theodore Roszak fails too, perhaps inevitably. But in the meantime he has brilliantly summed up once and for all the New Arcadian criticism of what he calls "postindustrial society." His book expresses almost as an act of autobiography the needs and demands he first began to detail in The Making of a Counter-Culture...
...Left and a handful of scholars, led by Theodore Roszak, author of The Making of a Counter Culture, believe that technology in America has been enshrined as an end, rather than as a means to a better life. They challenge the proposition that society must be organized around the requirements of mass production and technology ?and so do the militant young workers. Machines, they say, should work, and people should live; their own personalities are simply more important. If a machine will soon take over their jobs, then there is no reason to dedicate their lives to a dead...
...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 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...