The aim is not to give human beings real goals that warrant belief, and tasks to share in, but to re-establish "belonging," although this kind of speech and thought is precisely calculated to avoid contact and so makes belonging impossible.
Anarchism is grounded in a rather definite social-psychological hypothesis: that forceful, graceful and intelligent behaviour occurs only when there … - Paul Goodman
Anarchism is grounded in a rather definite social-psychological hypothesis: that forceful, graceful and intelligent behaviour occurs only when there …
- Paul Goodman
In America you can say anything you want - as long as it doesn't have any effect. - Paul Goodman
In America you can say anything you want - as long as it doesn't have any effect.
No good has ever come from feeling guilty, neither intelligence, policy, nor compassion. The guilty do not pay attention to the object but only to th… - Paul Goodman
No good has ever come from feeling guilty, neither intelligence, policy, nor compassion. The guilty do not pay attention to the object but only to th…
The issue is not whether people are 'good enough' for a particular type of society; rather it is a matter of developing the kind of social institutio… - Paul Goodman
The issue is not whether people are 'good enough' for a particular type of society; rather it is a matter of developing the kind of social institutio…
We live increasingly in a system in which little direct attention is paid to the object, the function, the program, the task, the need; but immense a… - Paul Goodman
We live increasingly in a system in which little direct attention is paid to the object, the function, the program, the task, the need; but immense a…
The ancient dream of man to fly among the stars and go through the could and look down on the lands and seas has degenerated in its realization to th… - Paul Goodman
The ancient dream of man to fly among the stars and go through the could and look down on the lands and seas has degenerated in its realization to th…
The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity. - Paul Goodman
The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.
We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among the least. - Paul Goodman
We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among the least.
The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has produced precise… - Paul Goodman
The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has produced precise…
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