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Charles A. Reich is an American legal and social scholar as well as writer who was a Professor at Yale Law School when he wrote the 1970 paean to the 1960s counterculture and youth movement, The Greening of America. Excerpts of the book first appeared in The New Yorker, and its seismic reception there helped the book to leading The New York Times Best Seller list.

✵ 20. máj 1928 – 15. jún 2019
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“As Reagan conservatism is becoming less popular, people are asking: Where do we go from here? We can also ask: Does the last era of liberalism provide any indications as to where we might or should go from here?
The liberalism of the nineteen-thirties emerged after the catastrophe that resulted from the conservatism of the nineteen-twenties. Conservatives had been in power for a long time, and ended by nearly wrecking the country. Liberals came along and performed a rescue operation. Ironically, they are credited with saving the establishment, which they surely did.”

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The Liberals' Mistake (1987)

“We seem to be living in a society that no one created and that no one wants.”

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Charles A. Reich kniha The Greening of America

Zdroj: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter I : The Coming American Revolution, p. 10

“It gave people a great leap of hope, made people feel good. This was a world that could get better, a whole lot better. I might say to those who stuck with it in some way or other they will still swear by the values of the '60s.”

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The Greening of America turns 40 (2010)

“One of the most clearly marked trends for over twenty years has been the decline in civil liberties.”

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Zdroj: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter XI : Revolution By Consciousness, p. 301

“The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values.”

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Zdroj: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter V : Anatomy Of The Corporate State, p. 88

“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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Zdroj: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter XI : Revolution By Consciousness, p. 305

“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.”

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Zdroj: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter III : The Failure Of Reform, p. 55

“No person's gain in wisdom is diminished by anyone else's gain.”

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Zdroj: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter XII : The Greening Of America, p. 383 ( See also: Vilfredo Pareto)

“Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.”

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Zdroj: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter VII : "It's Just Like Living", p. 182

“there is every reason to fear that the State is growing ever more powerful, more autonomous, more indifferent to its own inhabitants.”

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Zdroj: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter XI : Revolution By Consciousness, p. 299

“The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.”

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Zdroj: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter IV : Consciousness II, p. 78

“The presumed causes of Americas troubles can be summed up simply: the evils of unlimited competition, and abuses by those with economic power.”

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Zdroj: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter III : The Failure Of Reform, p. 43

“Surely this new age is not a repudiation of, but a fulfillment of, the American dream. What were the machines for, unless to give man a new freedom to choose how he would live?”

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Zdroj: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter XII : The Greening Of America, p. 356

“There were various kinds of direct action in the nineteen-sixties: the Civil Rights movement, in which minorities realized that nobody would do anything for them, that they had to do things for themselves; the women's movement, in which women realized they themselves had to do something about their rights; the environmental movement; and other social movements. The point is that people could not get what they wanted through the system — they had to get it directly. It is no wonder that what began as an idealistic concern for those who were deprived of their rights led to a great deal of selfishness by those who were not deprived. And here lies the affinity between the radicalism of the nineteen-sixties and the conservatism of the nineteen-eighties. Both grew from the same soil: They are different responses to the same problem.”

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The Liberals' Mistake (1987)

“The end result of this personal and public impoverishment is a hollow man.”

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Zdroj: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter VI : The Lost Self, p. 150

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

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Zdroj: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter II : Consciousness I: Loss Of Reality, p. 36

“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.”

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Zdroj: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter XII : The Greening Of America, p. 351

“The logic and necessity of the new generation — and what they are so furiously opposed to — must be seen against a background of what has gone wrong in America. It must be understood in light of the betrayal and loss of the American dream, the rise of the Corporate State of the 1960's, and the way in which that State dominates, exploits, and ultimately destroys both nature and man. Its rationality must be measured against the insanity of existing "reason" — reason that makes impoverishment, dehumanization, and even war appear to be logical and necessary. Its logic must be read from the fact that 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.”

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Zdroj: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter I : The Coming American Revolution, p. 5

“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.”

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Zdroj: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter IX : The New Generation, p. 253

“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.”

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Zdroj: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter IX : The New Generation, p. 220

“The machine itself has begun to do the work of revolution. The State is now generating forces that will accomplish what no revolutionaries could accomplish by themselves.”

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Zdroj: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter VIII : The Machine Begins To Self-Destruct, p. 189-190

“America is dealing death, not only to people of other lands, but to its own people. So say the most thoughtful and passionate of our youth, from California to Connecticut.”

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Zdroj: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter I : The Coming American Revolution, p. 3, opening lines

“My goal in life is to make people think. If I do that, I've been a success.”

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As quoted in "'Greening of America' author to present lecture series" in the Yale Bulletin & Calendar, Vol. 29, No. 4 (29 September 2000) http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v29.n4/story3.html

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

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Zdroj: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter XII : The Greening Of America, p. 393

“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.”

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Zdroj: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter IX : The New Generation, p. 228

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