October 18, 1973 - Murray Bookchin discusses the need for more communal lifestyles. He traces societal evolution from the blood ties of clans, tribes and families to a social society based on common interests. The trend of people dropping out of the workplace to become farmers and craftsmen is a sign this is no longer a youth culture but a counter culture. People are questioning relationships, consumerism, conventional lifestyles, and work. There?s a sea change in their values. They are not prepared any longer to accept the predatory attitude of ?compete, advance, climb the ladder, step over bodies.? He hopes for a change in public thinking and eventually institutions.
October 17, 1973 - Social theorist Bookchin explains his views on environmentalism versus and ecology. Environmentalists attempt to control nature to benefit man, while ecologists view nature as a living organism of which humans are a part. He disagrees with Marshall McLuhan on the nature of communication, saying the world is not a global village. While the means of communications may put people in contact with each other that doesn?t mean they are communicating, and he comments on the function of television. Finally Bookchin compares the nuclear family and its isolation to communal settings, a preferable model.
October 11, 1973 - Noted ecologist, Dr. Murray Bookchin, continues his speech discussing materialist goals and how said goals are destroying the environment.
October 11, 1973 - Murray Bookchin, a noted socialist libertarian and ecologist discusses our relatively recent desire as humans to dominate nature.