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It may shock some Hippies to learn that living in disregard
of conventions while pursuing art and intellectualism is older
than antimacassars. Hippies even look like old-time Bohemians.
Also, there’s nothing unrespectable about protest. Plato taught,
in the 5th Century, B.C., that man can move toward the
AND highest good by constant questioning of assumptions.
His Republic, a plan for a new social order, was followed
a thousand years later by St. Augustine’s City of God . . . and
in another thousand years by Sir Thomas More’s Utopia.
The Great Seal of the United States proclaims a New Order
of the Ages, Novus Ordo Seclorum. No sooner was the
Great Experiment launched, than little experiments—agrarian
communal colonies—sprouted from Texas to Massachusetts.
<k* These petered out, one way or another.
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What changes the social order most radically is not revolt
against society, but practical invention—moveable type,
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steam engines, electric light, automobiles, computers
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. . . the corporation, advertising, credit buying. Billions
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i i . ' invested in research and development are accelerating changes.
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Both protest and progress stem from discontent with things
®-ftDO as they are. But progress happens—undramatically
—the result of small, practical improvements. That’s why
your world will not be like the past, but a New Social Order.
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