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by Arianna Stassinopoulos
Since World War II we have witnessed the Social Revolution, the Black Revolution, the Sexual Revolution, and the Drug Revolution. All have failed to fulfill their promises. The pursuit of happiness has been reduced to the pursuit of comfort. Economic prosperity is the supreme aim of all Western Societies. Grown men are treated as children by the increasing power of the State, and the price of material prosperity has become political servitude.
Yet the author maintains in this brilliant book about our greatest malaise, the unrest of our century has prepared the ground for a spiritual revolution. The trivial preoccupations of our daily lives do not satisfy our deepest needs. Mental illness has become America's biggest health problem, it's casualties a magnification of the suffering in ourselves, as we plead -- through clear signs -- for recognition that the crucial battle of our age is that of the individual for the meaning of life. This spiritual awakening, a yearning unparalled in history, has its roots in certain omnipresent truths about man, most strikingly the vast and burgeoning demand that individual freedom not be denied.
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