Few Great Men Would Have Got Past

Anarchism Is Grounded In A Rather Definite Social-psychological Hypothesis: That Forceful, Graceful And Intelligent Behaviour Occurs Only When There Is An Uncoerced And Direct Response To The Physical And Social Environment; That In Most Human Affairs, More Harm Than Good Results From Compulsion, Top-down Direction, Bureaucratic Planning, Pre-ordained Curricula, Jails, Conscription, States.

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 Themselves, And Not Even To Their Own Interests, Which Might Make Sense, But To Their Anxieties.

Freud Pointed Out, In His Problem Of Lay Analysis, That It Is Extremely Unlikely That A Young Man Who Would Throw The Best Years Of His Life Into The Cloistered Drudgery Of Getting An M.d. Degree, Could Possibly Make A Good Psychoanalyst; So He Preferred To Look For Young Analysts Among The Writers, The Lawyers, The Mothers Of Families, Those Who Had Chosen Human Contact. But In Their Economic Wisdom, The Psychoanalytic Institute Of Vienna (and New York) Overruled Him.

The Organization Of American Society Is An Interlocking System Of Semi-monopolies Notoriously Venal, An Electorate Notoriously Unenlightened, Misled By Mass Media Notoriously Phony.

The Irony Is That In Our Decades, The Combination Of Rationalism, Asceticism, And Individualism (the So-called Protestant Ethic) Has Produced Precisely The System Of Boondoggling, Luxury-consumption, And Status.