The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties Legacy to the Underclass

Name: The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties Legacy to the Underclass
Brand: Penton Overseas Inc
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By Myron Magnet

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The legacy of the subtitle, according to Magnet, a Fortune magazine editorial board member and Manhattan Institute for Policy Research analyst, is "a liberal, left-of-central worldview" that, despite the intentions of the 1960s counterculture advocates, divides our society more fully than ever into Haves and Have-Nots. The sexual revolution and the focus on * "expressiveness" had the effect of holding "the poor back from advancement by robbing them of responsibility for their fate and thus further squelching their initiative and energy." The counterculture, as subscribed to by mainstream media, the federal courts and such figures as Ted Kennedy, befuddled the work ethic with idealistic notions of civil rights and fair wages. Finding a poverty of spirit in recent art, such as the fiction of Anne Beattie and Bret Easton Ellis, Magnet urges that we " stop the current welfare system, stop quota-based affirmative action . . . stop letting bums expropriate public spaces . . . stop Afrocentric education in the schools." Magnet offers many examples of societal ills but fails to make a convincing case that the legacy of the counterculture is the culprit.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Release Date:: 1994-08-01
Publication Date:: 1994-08-01
Publisher:: Penton Overseas Inc
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 0786107375
Weight:: 340 g

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