We Do Not Behave As If We

A Successful Revolution Establishes A New Community. A Missed Revolution Makes Irrelevant The Community That Persists. And A Compromised Revolution Tends To Shatter The Community That Was, Without An Adequate Substitute.

Naturally, Grown-up Citizens Are Concerned About The Beatniks And Delinquents. ... The Question Is Why The Grownups Do Not, More Soberly, Draw The Same Conclusions As The Youth. Or, Since No Doubt Many People Are Quite Clear About The Connection That The Structure Of Society That Has Becoming Increasingly Dominant In Our Country Is Disastrous To The Growth Of Excellence And Manliness, Why Don't More People Speak Up And Say So?

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.

A Good Teacher Feels His Way, Looking For Response.

Wrong' Training Can Be A Very Innocent Thing. Consider A Father Who Allows His Child To Read Good Books. That Child May Soon Cease To Watch Television Or Go To The Movies, Nor Will He Eventually Read Book-of-the-month Club Selections, Because They Are Ludicrous And Dull. As A Young Man, Then, He Will Effectually Be Excluded From All Of Madison Avenue And Hollywood And Most Of Publishing, Because What Moves Him Or What He Creates Is Quite Irrelevant To What Is Going On: It Is Too Fine. His Father Has Brought Him Up As A Dodo.