Part One: Affluence And Undertow
The radical of the thirties came out of a system that had stopped and the Important job was to organize new production relations which would start it up again. The sixties radical opened his eyes to a system pouring its junk over everybody, or nearly everybody, and the problem was to stop just that. to escape being overwhelmed by a mindless, goalless flood which marooned
each individual on his little island of commodities.
—Arthur Miller* 1 Arthur Miller: Introduction to Ken Kesey, Kesey's Garage Sale (New York: Viking, 1973), p. XV.
1. Cornucopia And Its Discontents