Word: countering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civil-rights campaigns and the old New Left, with their emphases on the value of all human life, on non-violence, on what Keniston called "an open, personalistic, unmanipulative, and extremely trusting style." Social action is certainly necessary, and it must go on simultaneously with the development of the counter culture. But warfare terminology and terrorism have no meaning for a humane future. Besides, more humane violence at this late stage of the game is a waste of effort...
...Roszak poses new and very difficult questions for his counter culture. Many theorists have enyisaged a time of technological case and abundance, and most people in the counter culture have gone right along with them. Now Roszak comes and levels a damning attack not only at technology, but at science as well I have the feeling that even while he was writing about pure science, he was reacting to the perversions of technocratic science. But he has nevertheless opened the debate. The counter culture now has to decide: Should it learn to live without technology? And, should it learn...
Roszak especially treasures the visionary experience of great artists and poets. But he means even more than that. Taking the counter culture's naturalistic impulses to their extreme, he calls for a new adoption of what Buber called "pansacramentalism," a deep, mystical appreciation for all beings, animate and inanimate...
...counter culture must proceed, then, with the understanding that it may not be a counter culture forever. In the long run, it could conceivably found the culture of post-technocratic, post-Western man. This consideration should not make people in the counter-culture self-righteous and oracular; but it should make them less flippant about what they are doing. Their experiments and explorations have barely begun. They cannot be allowed to stagnate or degenerate. The people in the counter have to assume a new intentness in their quest for human happiness, and a new earnestness in their vision of what...
...view of this sort runs quite counter to that of our friendly professors. They feel that if only the American government were more educated, if only it knew more about "Asian histories and cultures," if only it listened to them, we would have no more blunders and would have the best of all possible worlds. To the radical this is a dangerous delusion: the effect of such developments, if any, would be to make the government more efficient in realizing the same goals, in satisfying the same motives...