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...ground on which it flourished was a traumatized Europe whose ruins and shaken regimes offered a kind of blank tablet: any design for Utopia, once drawn there, might stick. At one end of Europe, constructivism was apolitical; its center was the De Stijl group in Holland, led by Mondrian and Van Doesburg. The bright shuttles of color-red, blue, yellow, white and black, without tints or complementaries or tones-in works like Mondrian's Color Composition A, 1917, or Van Does-burg's majestic but unbuilt design of 1923 for a university hall-refer to no ideology...
...Germany more than 30 years ago: the evil of Marxism. Marxist dogma is hostile to human nature and always implies repression and, ultimately, terror. Marxism is not likely to fade away soon, however. Some people will always repress and terrorize others in the name of some far-off Utopia...
...year old when the nightmares began. The demoniac leer of Charles Manson. Confessions without remorse. An aerospace unemployment line of 180,000 bodies. Flickering images of a bank burning. Such impulses, such possibilities, had always been there beneath the glitter, but once they surfaced, it was hard to see Utopia any longer. Suddenly, a 1971 California poll showed that half the state's recent arrivals, plus a full third of its permanent residents, would leave if given the chance. This was big news. By 1972 California migration was 90% below the annual rate of 300,000 who entered during...
Still, all this is very far from the image of Utopia that was so seductive in the '60s and early '70s. Perhaps the pursuit of Utopia has become small bore everywhere, concentrating on traffic control, garbage compactors and the blessed ability to breathe even half-clean air. The loss seems greater in California because there the expectations were so much greater than elsewhere. If the continent once seemed to tip west, allowing all things unattached to roll to the Golden State on the Pacific, it has by now regained its equilibrium. California has clearly lost the magic...
Todd Rundgren and Utopia--Orpheum...