Article: Sounding the alarm on American culture.(Features)(Books)

PROMISE AHEAD By Duane Elgin William Morrow 224 pp., $23

THE TWILIGHT OF AMERICAN CULTURE By Morris Berman W.W. Norton 224 pp., $23.95

Duane Elgin's new book, Promise Ahead, has a hopeful sounding title and message. But the "promise" that lies ahead, Elgin warns, can be realized only if we start to think, feel, and act in a way that will enable us to move past petty, selfish, and ultimately self-destructive individualism, nationalism, industrialism, and consumerism.

This certainly sounds like a fine plan, but how might we even dare to hope such farsightedness will prevail?

Looking around at some dismaying current behavior - obsession ...

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