We Do Not Need To Be Able

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.

Nothing Could Be More Stupid Than For The Communications Commission To Give To People Who Handle The Means Of Broadcasting The Inventing Of What To Broadcast, And Then, Disturbed At The Poor Quality, To Worry About Censorship.

To Want A Job That Exercises A Man's Capacities In An Enterprise Useful To Society, Is Utopian Anarcho-syndicalism; It Is Labor Invading The Domain Of Management. No Labor Leader Has Entertained Such A Thought In Our Generation. Management Has The "sole Prerogative" To Determine The Products.

The "brightness" Of The 15 Percent Might Or Might Not Indicate A Profound Feeling For The Causes Of Things; It Is Largely Verbal And Symbol-manipulating, And Is Almost Certainly Partly An Obsessional Device Not To Know And Touch Risky Matter, Just As Freud Long Ago Pointed Out That The Nagging Questions Of Small Children Are A Substitute For Asking The Forbidden Questions.

American Society Has Tried So Hard And So Ably To Defend The Practice And Theory Of Production For Profit And Not Primarily For Use That Now It Has Succeeded In Making Its Jobs And Products Profitable And Useless.