By Charles A. Reich
There's a revolution coming. it's going to now not be like revolutions of the earlier. it is going to originate with the person and with tradition, and it'll switch the political constitution in simple terms as its ultimate act. it is going to no longer require violence to prevail, and it can't be effectively resisted through violence. this is often the revolution of the recent new release.
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Lag is quite plainly an inherent problem in any attempt at • social management. There is a creaky political machinery to be set in motion, stubborn and powerful vested interests to be overcome. Somebody profits from child labour, from lack of 48 The Greening of America safety in mines. Meanwhile, society keeps on changing. Can government ever be flexible and swift-acting enough to deal with social problems at the same time that they occur? Can it ever act with scientific precision when it must act through the political system?
In north-west Seattle there is an immensely popular 'oldfashioned' ice-cream parlour. It is modern, spotless and gleaming, bursting with comfortable-looking people on a warm summer evening. The parlour is dedicated to nostalgia, from the old-time decor to the striped candy, the rag-time music, the costumes of the smiling young waiters, the Gibson-girl' menu with its gold-rush type, and the open-handed hospitality of the Old West. It serves sandwiches, hamburgers, and kiddie 'samiches', but its speciality is ice-cream concoctions, all of them with special names, including several so vast and elaborate thai they cost several dollars and arrive with so much fanfare that all other activities stop as the waiters join in a procession as guards of honour~ Nobody seems to care that the sandwiches and even the ice-cream dishes have a curious blandness, so that everything tastes rather alike and it is hard to remember what one has eaten.
The New Deal did succeed in coping with the Depression emergency, which might have brought down the whole system, but the system's problems were preserved along with it. Far greater doubt about reform arises not from lag, but from the shallowness of the New Deal's accomplishments and its failure to follow through. Such radical efforts as redistribution of income, greater public ownership and planning and programmes aimed at improving the quality of life were soon abandoned. The evils that had crept into the American political system - urban disenfranchisement, disenfranchisement of blacks, gerrymandering bosses and undemocratic political conventions, oligarchical control of Congress, and newspaper domination of the channels of public opinion - were all left to grow worse.
