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...Fourth Consensus...
...note the spread of political apathy and to lament it has become commonplace. This lack of deeply felt political commitment reflects to a large degree, I believe, the broad areas of agreement on major issues, which we have just examined. The more fully we recognize and accept that consensus, the more difficult it is to tackle the remaining differences with the zeal and the energy which our democratic tradition seems to demand...
There is little doubt that lurking some-where outside the present area of political consensus are perhaps the most formidable questions in the history of man, questions involving not only the nature of life on this earth, but even its continued existence. A brief review of the forces which are now formulating these questions suggests the scope of the challenge...
This does not mean that an effective new majority consensus cannot be developed that is competent to cope with these questions. It simply means that they have not yet been brought within the range where the political processes which create such an agreement are operating. The attention of the political parties has remained focused, in a manner I have already described, upon diminishing areas of disagreement within the broad political consensus that emerged in response to the domestic crisis of the 1930's. Because of this failure to grasp the significance of the newer and infinitely more momentous challenge...
Bowles emphasized that we need to consider our relations with the world from a far broader perspective. From this broader perspective must come a new majority consensus which recognizes the fact that we live in a world that is a community, he said...