“Suppose you had the revolution you are talking and dreaming about. Suppose your side had won, and you had the kind of society you wanted. How would you live, you personally, in that society? Start living that way now!” WayKindDreamInspirationWantedSidesTalkingRevolutionYour Side Author: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 institutions that are most conducive to expanding the potentialities we have for intelligence, grace, sociability and freedom.” PeopleKindMatterEnoughSocialIssuesGraceParticularTypeInstitutionsDevelopingGood EnoughExpandingSociabilitySocial Institutions Author:Paul Goodman
“The importance of the Beats is twofold: first, they act out a critique of the organized system that everybody in some sense agrees with. But second-and more important in the long run-they are a kind of major pilot study of the use of leisure in an economy of abundance.” FirstsKindLongImportantUseRunningEconomyStudyMajorsBeatsImportanceAgreeOrganizedAbundancePilotsLeisureLong RunsCritique Book:Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society
“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.” GivingHumansKindRealBeliefGoalHuman BeingsImpossibleShareSpeechTasksAimContactBelongingBeing RealWarrants Book:Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society
