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What looks like a man is only a representation of a man who does what the organization requires. He (or it) does not run the machine; he tends it.
The Greening of America (1970)
Thus older forms of wealth were replaced by new forms.
The Greening of America (1970)
One cannot sell anything to a satisfied man. Ergo, make him want something new, or take away something that he has and then sell him something to take its place.
The Greening of America (1970)
Moreover, the human condition, if that is what it is, has been getting steadily worse in the Corporate State; more and more life-denying just as life should be opening up.
The Greening of America (1970)
The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.
The Greening of America (1970)
Of all the qualities of human beings that are injured, narrowed, or repressed in the Corporate State, it is consciousness, the most precious and the most fragile, that suffers the most.
The Greening of America (1970)
To the American people of 1789, their nation promised a new way of life: each individual a free man; each having the right to seek his own happiness; a republican form of government in which the people would be sovereign; and no arbitrary power over people's lives.
The Greening of America (1970)
A work of art is not valued because it changes itself for each person who views it, it retains its own integrity and thus means something unique and marvelous to those who see it.
The Greening of America (1970)
Marx saw exploitation in terms of the rewards of human labor, but we can see it in terms of all the values of our society.
The Greening of America (1970)
"there is every reason to fear that the State is growing ever more powerful, more autonomous, more indifferent to its own inhabitants."
The Greening of America (1970)
Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for the values of our choice.
The Greening of America (1970)
Thus we have the spectacle, still to be seen today, of the western rancher who accepts federal aid for his cattle operations and federal aid for his grazing requirements, but bitterly opposes all social programs that do not concern him, and the philosophy that lies behind them.
The Greening of America (1970)
Americans have lost control of the machinery of their society, and only new values and a new culture can restore control. Its emotions and spirit can be comprehended only by seeing contemporary America through the eyes of the new generation.
The Greening of America (1970)
Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a momentum of their own. In our country, they pulverize everything in their path—the landscape, the natural environment
The Greening of America (1970)