Connexions Quotations
Paul Goodman
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As a rule I don’t believe in poverty and suffering as a way of learning anything,
but in my case the hardship and starvation of my inept queer life have usefully simplified my notions of what a good society is.
As with any other addict who cannot get an easy fix, they have kept me in close touch with material hunger.
So I cannot take the Gross National Product very seriously, nor status and credentials,
nor grandiose technological solutions, nor ideological politics, including ideological liberation movements.
For a starving person, the world has got to come across in kind. It doesn’t.
I have learned to have very modest goals for society and myself: things like clean air, green grass,
children with bright eyes, not being pushed around, useful work that suits one’s abilities, plain tasty food, and occasional satisfying nookie.
- Paul Goodman
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I might seem to have a number of divergent interests – community planning, psychotherapy, education, politics –
but they are all one concern: how to make it possible to grow up as a human being into a culture without losing nature.
I simply refuse to acknowledge that a sensible and honorable community does not exist.
- Paul Goodman
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