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Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

Book by Paul Goodman · 3 quotes · Men, Humans, Jobs

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“The ideal of having a real job that you risk your soul in and make good or be damned, belongs to the heroic age of capitalist enterprise, imbued with self-righteous beliefs about hard work, thrift, and public morals. Such an ideal might still have been mentioned in public fifty years ago; in our era of risk-insured semimonopolies and advertised vices it would be met with a ghastly stillness.”