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...which the left has been slow to learn both in our time and in times past. When deceit and social neglect become cushrined as principles of government, they do not breed revolt. A decaying social order is not the fertile breeding ground of social change. It is a barrea wasteland in which visible movement disappears. This wasteland is the home ground of Nixonian politics Nixonian politics must be defeated if not this time then soon
...raved about ABC's Julie Andrews Hour and saluted NBC Reports. To even things up, he said that ABC'S new series, The Rookies, was a "dumb daydream" and called NBC's first Search episode, starring Hugh O'Brian, a "kind of plastic epitome of wasteland television: you want to ask for your hour back when it's over." With all the knocks, CBS of course has had its share of favorable reviews. Sheehan liked, among others, M*A*S*H, Maude and Anna and the King...
WHERE THE WASTELAND ENDS...
Into this "wasteland" climate of despair, a countermyth of hope, has been introduced. It may be identified as the myth of the New Arcadia. The New Arcadians see their salvation in a return to Eden innocence. Arcadian man will not reprogram the world; externalized change is the Promethean trap. Arcadian man will change his own head. He will retap the sources within his archetypal self. A million individual religious experiences will take place, and these will change the world...
...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...