Paul Goodman Frases y Citas
Paul Goodman: Frases en inglés
“Perhaps the social message has been communicated clearly to the young men and is unacceptable.”
Fuente: Growing Up Absurd (1956), pp. 10-11.
Contexto: Social scientists … have begun to think that “social animal” means “harmoniously belonging.” They do not like to think that fighting and dissenting are proper social functions, nor that rebelling or initiating fundamental change is a social function. Rather, if something does not run smoothly, they say it has been improperly socialized; there has been a failure in communication. … But perhaps there has not been a failure in communication. Perhaps the social message has been communicated clearly to the young men and is unacceptable. … We must ask the question, “Is the harmonious organization to which the young are inadequately socialized perhaps against human nature, or not worthy of human nature, and therefore there is difficulty in growing up?”
as quoted in Commonist Tendencies: Mutual Aid Beyond Communism
(describing the language of the “Beat” generation, p. 175.
Growing Up Absurd (1956)
“Few great men could pass personnel.”
Fuente: Growing Up Absurd (1956), p. 153.
"A Chess Game" St. 1, Collected Poems, Random House, 1973, ISBN 0394483588.
Another large part of stupidity is stubbornness, unconsciously saying, “I won’t. You can’t make me.”
Fuente: Growing Up Absurd (1956), pp. 71-72.
“When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality.”
Fuente: Growing Up Absurd (1956), p. 144.