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...report presents it, the result is a sort of Utopia-not the stagnation of civilization. "A society released from struggling with the many problems imposed by growth," the report says, "may have more energy and ingenuity available for solving other problems." Research, the arts, athletics might well flourish in a no-growth world. Nor would developing nations necessarily be frozen into everlasting poverty. Without the burden of an increasing population, they might provide fewer citizens more amenities...
...case of Time, because the popular press is always in need of some new villain to destroy, some new hero to create, something to put on the cover. Unfortunately, Beyond Freedom and Dignity is neither a heinous model for a 1984 super-state, nor a viable blueprint for Utopia. It is, however, an interesting book...
...just what is the "absolutely necessary" and rather total transformation Revel calls for? Little short of Utopia. All Revel seems to expect is an end to "the notion of national sovereignty," some sort of "worldwide economic and educational equality," the "abolition of war," an "elimination of the possibility of internal dictatorship," and worldwide birth control...
This assumes, however, that we live in a Utopia in which everyone is free to do as he pleases, in which nobody uses money to make other people do what they otherwise would not do. It also assumes that in this Utopia all sexual partners give themselves freely out of love for one another. But even if such an ideal state really existed, would it be fair to condemn anyone who failed to live up to the ideal? To condemn, that is, the soldier far from home, the traveling salesman, the frightened student, and the old and the ugly...
...slapped-up posters of Che and Ho. His political villains are opposite-and-equal cliches, crude, hasty caricatures of a "Brooks-suited investor" whose "manicured fingers" are "infinitely removed from the bloodletting." When it comes to the America he wants, Berrigan sidles into a vision of "Paradise Park"-a Utopia straight out of the pixiest moments of The Greening of America: "Let the people enter, grow, run, fly, perambulate, consume, pull corks from, spread jams and peanut butter on, swim and sun in, et cetera, as the day is long...