It Then Becomes Necessary To Stop Short

Because Of Their Historical Theory Of The "alienation Of Labor" (that The Worker Must Become Less And Less In Control Of The Work Of His Hands) The Marxist Parties Never Fought For The Man-worthy Job Itself.

An Awkward Consequence Of Heightening Experience When One Is Inexperienced, Of Self-transcendence When One Has Not Much World To Lose, Is That Afterward One Cannot Be Sure That One Was Somewhere Or Had Newly Experienced Anything. If You Aren't Much In The World, How Do You Know You Are "out Of This World"?

A Well-known Magazine Asks A Man How They Should Refer To Him, As Psychologist X, As Author X? He Suggests Man Of Letters, For That Is What He Is, In The Eighteenth-century Meaning. But They Can't Buy That Because The Word Doesn't Exist In Time-style; He Cannot Be That, And Presumably The Old Function Of Letters Cannot Exist.

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 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.