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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.

— Charles A. Reich The Greening of America (1970)

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Once a person reaches Consciousness III, there is no returning to a lower consciousness.

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We do not see it because we can not afford to-because the truth is too explosive.

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Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth.

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Organizations are not really "owned" by anyone.

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The crucial fact to realize about all the powerful machinery of the Corporate State — its laws, structure, political system — is that it possesses no mind.

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