ABSTRACT
The pathos of latter-day man in the New Society is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others, and he has been unable to attain either. The American is thus an archetypal man, not in the Jungian sense of reaching back to a prehistoric past and a racial unconscious, but in the quite different sense of reaching into the common future of technical man and his society. One could make out a pretty strong case for the proposition that there is a crisis in the condition of society which is as grave as the crisis of survival wrought by the H-bomb. One finds a widespread belief, especially among younger sociologists who seem to have been born old, that there is a "New Society" in which almost everything is degenerate and that America is its forerunner and carrier.
