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...outset of his piece on "The Administration and the Left" Schlesinger delineates two distinct, historical strains in American progressivism. The "pragmatic" strain "accepts, without approving, the given structure of society and strives to change it by action from within." The "utopian" strain "rejects the given structure of society, root and branch, and strives to change it by exhortation from without...
Such attempts at classification, especially in the American context, have limitations. But one is fairly safe in including Prof. Hughes and men like Prof. David Riesman and Paul Goodman in the "utopian" camp. Also in this group is most of the so-called "peace movement"--Student Peace Union (SPU), Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), a large segment of Tocsin...
...behavioral events, suicide or hospitalization. There are, of course, many papers describing lurid symptoms inferred by psychiatrists observing consciousness-expanding drug experiences. The psychiatric vocabulary is limited, ominous, and pathological. Gloomy diagnostic pronouncements by psychiatrists are such a routine symptom of our culture that we are prepared for that utopian mental health survey finding that one-third of us are psychotic, one-third neurotic and one-third cured or in treatment. But, when we ask subjects to describe their own reaction or when we count the objective behavioral events there is no reason to believe that consciousness-expanding drug experiences...
Leary framed the goal of science in the Utopian sense as the reduction of helplessness. The natural sciences and education attempt to reduce external helplessness by increasing one's ability to play games, but are frequently unsuccessful because the game structures are unknown. The goal of behavioral science, he said, is to reduce internal helplessness by changing inner behavior, that is, consciousness...
...story, she writes, "is about contraception in the way, for instance, that Frank Norris's The Octopus is about wheat. There is an air of imparting information-like whaling in Melville." Reviewing Simone de Beauvoir's prolix attack on male imperialism. The Second Sex, Hardwick pricks its Utopian pretension that women are stronger and better than men in a commonsensical line: "Any woman who has ever had her wrist twisted by a man recognizes a fact of nature as humbling as a cyclone to a frail tree branch...