The Greening of America
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
How Green Grows Your Tale The Greening of America by Charles A. Reich Random House, 97.95 Not very long ago, a regiment of East Coast writers mostly from the Long Island pulp Newsday, was...
...These were the great days of pioneer spirit, rugged individualism and limited government...
...In Consciousness III we shall all spend long dulcet hours of contemplation, often emboldened by drugs and primitive music...
...How Green Grows Your Tale The Greening of America by Charles A. Reich Random House, 97.95 Not very long ago, a regiment of East Coast writers mostly from the Long Island pulp Newsday, was mustered to contribute individually lascivious vignettes on the general theme of the drippings of one woman's glands...
...Further, the tome rests on such a complex vertebra of psycho-socio-economic terms I have come to conclude that the Yale law professor was allowed access to Psychology Today by his doctors - the frontiers of mental therapy are truly boundless...
...Nevertheless, there are two final points I should like to make...
...Franklin Roosevelt brought apparent deliverance in what the chimps call Consciousness II...
...He found Reich and the chimps on an entirely different wave length from the rest of us, and I agree...
...Reliant on social tinkering, market control, coercion, and an unhealthy resort to axioms, its crowning achievement is the Welfare State...
...And now a committee of eleven chimpanzees and one Yale professor of law have combined to write a book criticizing the Great Republic's indiscretions while vaticinating on its rosy future...
...Consciousness I lasted roughly from the apostasy of Britannia's brat to the 1932 coronation of Franklin the Magnificent...
...Charles Reich, laboring mightily...
...Oh no...
...Our lives will be characterized by a profound sense of community, but it will not be the community of the ham-fisted cigar-chomping politician...
...A new interest in the spiritual dimension will flower, but this will not be like those spiritual monomanias of yesteryear that were forever convulsing the world in religious brainbashings...
...I feel much like the celebrated scholar who, in reviewing The Greening of America for that illustrious journal of Liberal thought, The Nation, judged the thesis of the book simply above reproach...
...D. Obviously, the authors are discoursing on a very high plane...
...But there is hope, for today we stand in the dawn of a third period, a period reeking with sweetness, saintliness and blissful concord...
...Woody Gutherie, Mr...
...Beyond being well written the book displays considerable erudition - at the very outset one of the chimps has seen fit to quote such abstruse Western philosophes as Mr...
...Further, everyone will be kept quite busy experiencing the wonderful exhilaration of individual creativity...
...Neither the wisdom of the Founding Fathers nor the wisdom of the great Legal Guardian was flawless or capable of vouchsafing contentment to every single solitary Homo sapien from sea to shining sea, so it is back to the drawing boards where we find a lone Yale professor of law, Dr...
...But, if a chap in one of the more advanced vocations of Consciousness III, say a blacksmith, has not sweated out all of his creativity in his daily toils, he will skip home and dash off a symphony, or compose a sonnet...
...Theirs is a spiritual -wisdom and humane polity...
...Shortly thereafter an American art gallery displayed the dauberies of a chimpanzee and the fans of contemporary doodles formed queues in front of the gallery, so eager were they to compare the chefs-d'oeuvre of an anthropoid ape with those of their trendy masters...
...It seems the authors' recollections of this supermarket republic's sordid history have inspired them to neatly subsume it into two periods, or as the authors poetically put it Consciousness I and Consciousness II...
...Chet Powers and Wallace Stevens...
...and it is responsible for practically every contemporary discomfort-not excluding the American proclivity for oversimplification...
...Consciousness I promised freedom and equality, but it was maculated by the wrong virtues...
...Joyousness will reign, and our nights will be spent in nice warm caves-at least three months out of the year...
...They have finally discovered a lucrative way to publish books without relying on raw sex and cheap thrills...
...R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
...Thomas Jefferson served as Consciousness I's first public relations whiz, and it deranged an entire century of American history, culminating in deepest Babbittry...
...They have quite transcended mere economics, political theory, simple technology and the like...
...The Greening of America is a surprising accomplishment for eleven chimpanzees and one Yale law professor...
...The work is far beyond the grasp of my relatively smooth cranium...
...And despairing capitalists should be encouraged by the enterprising honeyfogelers at Random House...
...The author has designed a period of incomparable splendor...
...During these two periods stupidity, wickedness and contradictions were in abundance...
...The Greening of America has raised my opinion of the inhabitants of all America's zoos and in-sane asylums...
...In fact, the Christian deity is hardly mentioned...
...Yet, so rhapsodically is it described in this book that only a dunderhead would read it and not immediately conclude that he had come upon the contribution of the Yale law professor...
...It will be a world in which we shall all simply do our glorious things...
...Nor will it be the dreary world of the township trustees...
...Designated Consciousness III, it would be for any normal man oppressive, boring and preposterous...
...Preferably we will work off this creativity in our vocational activities...
...The whole mess was eventually palmed off to American devotees of belles-lettres as a novel titled Naked Came the Stranger, by Penelope Ashe, and no one was the wiser...
...In this sublime era the likes of Thomas Jefferson and Franklin Roosevelt will be very small change indeed, for the new Chautauqua Circuiteers will be luminaries like Charles Manson and Timothy Leary, Ph...
...Now, I do not pretend to understand the complicated ideas reposing within this difficult study...
...Consciousness II assumed freedom and equality, but by pursuing security and abstraction it has brought us to the hem of a national nervous breakdown...
Vol. 4 • April 1971 • No. 5
