When it is another human being who is being... objectified, everybody (except the rapist) can clearly see the act as a crime. But when we objectify t… - Theodore Roszak

We are discovering that natural philosophy needs bonds of sympathy as well as precision of intellect.

The elder culture that is being improvised all around us day by day... promises to be the road toward a saner, more compassionate, more sustainable world—altogether, a more important turning point than ever presented itself in the 1960s... This, at last, is what the dissenting idealism of the 1960s was, in its highest and brightest expression, all about: a transformation of values that may finally reveal the goal of industrialization... In raising that possibility I cling to one hope. They grew up... reveling in their willingness to search beyond the limits of convention. ...What Boomers left undone in their youth, they will return to take up in their maturity... we have won years back from death. That gives us the grand project of using those extra years to build a culture that is morally remarkable.

Reduced to the statistical permutations of genes, life became "nothing but" the marriage of chance and selection.