THE AGE OF AQUARIUS: Technology and the Cultural Revolution

by William Braden ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 1, 1970

Starting with the oft-asked question, ""What's really bugging the young?"" this author works his way through an awesome syllabus of socio-politico-philosophical issues (e.g. Drugs and Mysticism; Black Identity; The Death of God; The Theology of Hope; Eros vs. Logos in the American Home) and a heroic reading list (de Jouvenal, Moltmann, Fanon, Bettelheim, Ellul, Dubos--to name a very few) to conclude that what's worrying young people is the emergence of a growth-obsessed ""technotronic society,"" opposed to humane values and immune to public control. A nice idea, but limited in that it focuses on the evils of technology to the exclusion of concern with equalizing its benefits. Still, Braden, a reporter and writer interested in sociocultural themes (The Private Sea: LSD and the Search for God), has pointed to an important problem with wide reverberations in current debates. Unfortunately, some readers will be irritated by his mode of argument which is to hide behind capsule versions of the ideas of contemporary thinkers, manipulating them toward his own synthesis. But his sympathies are broad enough to include what Abbie Hoffman stands for and he's on the side of the young if not completely inside them.

Pub Date: April 1, 1970

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Publisher: Quadrangle

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1970

Categories: NONFICTION