Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth. - Charles A. Reich

Surely this new age is not a repudiation of, but a fulfillment of, the American dream. What were the machines for, unless to give man a new freedom to choose how he would live?

The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.

The machine itself has begun to do the work of revolution. The State is now generating forces that will accomplish what no revolutionaries could accomplish by themselves.