The Greening of America

begun, as a matter of urgent biological necessity, to develop a new consciousness

private power

But innocence and optimism have one basic failing — they have no fundamental depth. Consciousness I was unwilling or unable to comprehend the transformation of America.

Conventional wisdom has it that if you want change you start with politics. For Reich, politics

But our economic progress has profoundly altered the position of the individual acting alone. We can no longer take care of our own needs. We have all become dependent on many others

They adopted the lifestyles of wealth, power and success.

longer competing against the success of other individuals, but against a system.

Below the surface, though, is the jungle, the void, the fear of failure.

become projectiles, ready to be set in motion by outside energies.