Features of the New Society

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168-17. To mention only a few of the difficulties the construction of the new society has to solve:

1. It would have to solve the problem of how to continue the industrial mode of production without total centralization.

2. It would have to combine overall planning with a high degree of decentralization.

3. It would have to give up the goal of unlimited growth for selective growth.

4. It would have to create work conditions and a general spirit in which not material gain but other, psychic satisfactions are effective motivations.

5. It would have to further scientific progress and, at the same time, prevent this progress from becoming a danger to the human race by it practical application.

6. It would have create conditions under which people experience well-being and joy, not the satisfaction of the maximum-pleasure drive.

7. It would have to give basic security to individuals without making them dependent on a bureaucracy to feed them.

8. It would have to restore possibilities for individual initiatives in living, rather than in business.

172-2. Human Utopia in Messianic Time - a united new humankind living in solidarity and peace, free from economic determination, from war and class struggle - can be achieved provided we spend the same energy, intelligence, and enthusiasm on the realization of the human Utopia as we have spent on the realization of our technical Utopias.

172-18. The goal is not control over nature but control over technique and over irrational social forces and institutions that threaten the survival of Western society, if not of the human race.

172-22. It is my conviction that our future depends on whether, given awareness of the present crisis, the best minds will mobilize to devote themselves to the new humanistic science of Man. For nothing short of their concerted effort will help to solve the problems already mentioned here, and to achieve the goals discussed below.

174-18. The model of the new society must be determined by the requirements of the unalienated, being-oriented individual.

174쪽 27번째 줄까지 읽었습니다. 

당분간, 방학입니다. 여름방학...

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174-27.
If human beings are ever to become free and to cease feeding industry by pathological consumption, a radical change in economy is necessary: we must put an end to the present situation where a healthy economy is possible only at the price of unhealthy human beings.

176-1.
The first crucial step toward this goal is that consumptiom shall be directed for the sake of "sane consumption."

176-14.
Sane consumption can take place only if an ever-increasing number of people want to change their consumption patterns and their life styles.

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178-33.
It is to be expected that the concerted effort to stimulate the appetite for sane consumption is likely to change the pattern of consumption.

182-2.
Sane consumption is possible only if we curb the right of stockholders and management of big enterprises to determine their production solely on the basis of profit and expasion.

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at the price of unhealthy human beings 를 무슨 뜻으로 읽었나요?

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Healthy economy is possible only at the price of unhealthy human beings.

-> healty economy가 unhealthy human beings를 댓가로 할때만 가능하다.

이렇게 읽어봤어요~

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182-13.
Either the existing enterprises will have to convert their facilities in order to satisfy the new demands, the government must spend the capital necessary for the production of new products and services that are wanted.

182-26.
Only the citizens' overwhelming desire for sane consumption could break the corporations' resistance.

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182-29.
One effective way that citizens can demonstrate the power of the consumer is to build a militant consumer movement that will use the threat of "consumer strikes" as a weapon.

184-24.
For, indeed, a 20 percent minority could be extremely effective in inducing change.

186-3.
The problem in all this lies in making the consumers aware of (1) their partly unconscious protest against consumerism and (2) their potential power, once the humanist-minded consumers are organized. Such comsumers' movement would be a manifastation of genuine democracy.

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186-13.
But even an effective comsumers' movement will not suffice as long as the power of big corporations remains as great as it is now.

186-15.
For even the remnant of democracy that still exists is doomed to yield to technocratic facism, to a society of well-fed, unthinking robots unless the giant corporations' big hold on the goverment and on the population is broken.

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186-29.
To acheive a society based on being, all people must actively participate in their economic function and as citizens. Hence, our liberation from the having mode of existence is possible only through the full realization of industrial and political participatory democracy.