Abstract
The idea of small communities and largely self-sufficient family farms nestled in green valleys is deceptively appealing. Mr. Nash takes an objective look at this vision that has constituted the mainstay of post-industrial utopianism; he finds the decentralized society using soft technologies lacks some the proven principles that have made the present civilization. He contends that Americans have bred themselves into a corner where some lifestyles and technological options are no longer open. Large numbers of people cannot live in a decentralized way together. He further elaborates that the main liability of decentralization will be the death blow it deals to wildness and its several attendant values such as solitude, silence, freedom, challenge, diversity, and the beauty of unmodified nature. Most utopian theorists take for granted that a more beautiful, more satisfying, and better world would result from reinhabiting America. Mr. Nash outlines some basic problems with attempting to create a utopian garden earth. The basic conflict is that the goals sought by the decentralized theorists possibly could be reached only in a highly centralized society.
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