ABSTRACT
Mankind has chiefly suffered from the frustration of its prevalent purposes, even such as belong to the very definition of its species. The literary exposition of freedom deals mainly with the frills. The Greek myth was more to the point. Prometheus did not bring to mankind freedom of the press. He procured fire, which obediently to human purposes cooks and gives warmth. In fact freedom of action is a primary human need. The attack on American values and their definition as materialistic is, of course, directed against the American worker and his family who have moved into the middle class. The American economy, as most Western economies, despite recessions and shake-outs and inflation-deflation cycles, has managed to avoid mass unemployment. An amicus curiae of the progressive left will reply to author's attack on Hacker that criticism like him reveals “a lack of open-mindedness towards large generalizations”.
