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'Safe' Space

Just how "safe" the new space
of consciousness will be, how far it
will go in developing solutions to
critical problems, and its ultimate
impact on human lives seems to be
the overriding question of the
book.

The question remains. The blind
spots cripple here as nowhere else,
for "The Greening of America"
fails to carry through with what it
begins. The existence of the new

culture is proven, but the direction
that it will take is by no means
certain.

Too much depends on how it is
received in the receding parent society.
This is what the book passes
over all too easily. Assuming the
virtues of Consciousness III, there is
the troubling question of what will
become of it in the midst of current
pressures, how it may be altered,
diluted or even destroyed.