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By Charles A. Reich - Opposing The System (1995-10-11) [Hardcover]
On the 25th anniversary of the publication of his mega-best seller The Greening of America (250,000 sold in hardcover and more than 2 million in paperback), Charles Reich offers a bold new appraisal of why America has lost its way and how it can rededicate itself to the pursuit of true prosperity for all its citizens.
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First published September 26, 1995
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Charles A. Reich
12 books8 followersCharles Alan Reich was an American academic and writer best known for writing the 1970 book The Greening of America, a paean to the counterculture of the 1960s.
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January 31, 2021
In chapter one, I read this:
There is a very real danger that those now in control will drive us straight off a cliff. Undeterred by mounting evidence of impending social catastrophe, they may bring about such dangerous inequality, such widespread insecurity, and such massive damage to the natural and human habitat that the deprived and dispossessed will wreak havoc in return.
What boggles my mind is that this book was written in 1995. Charles Reich saw then what we have become even more of. He pretty much write that when you boil everything of value down to its economic value, it is bad for society and humanity. what he couldn't have seen yet was the fracturing of our culture by the various peg holes of entertainment, education, and careers that we end up inhabiting due to the infinite varieties of the internet offering and unabated greed.
There is a very real danger that those now in control will drive us straight off a cliff. Undeterred by mounting evidence of impending social catastrophe, they may bring about such dangerous inequality, such widespread insecurity, and such massive damage to the natural and human habitat that the deprived and dispossessed will wreak havoc in return.
What boggles my mind is that this book was written in 1995. Charles Reich saw then what we have become even more of. He pretty much write that when you boil everything of value down to its economic value, it is bad for society and humanity. what he couldn't have seen yet was the fracturing of our culture by the various peg holes of entertainment, education, and careers that we end up inhabiting due to the infinite varieties of the internet offering and unabated greed.
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