> It is a common misconception that anarchists believe that "human nature is good" and so men can be trusted to rule themselves. In fact we tend to take the pessimistic view; people are not to be trusted, so prevent the concentration of power.
#ConcentrationOfPower #中央集権
#HumanNatureIsGood #PessimisticView by #PaulGoodman in #DecentralizingPower book #FreedomAndAutonomy
> Men have a right to be crazy, stupid, and arrogant. It's our special thing. Our mistake is to arm anybody with collective power. Anarchy is the only safe polity.
#PaulGoodman on #CollectivePower #FreedomAndAutonomy

“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.” — Paul Goodman, Growing Up Absurd
#BOTD #PaulGoodman #QOTD #Communications #Quote #Censorship #Quotation #FreeSpeech

https://yahooeysblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/quote-of-the-day-5273/

Quote of the Day

“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 quali…

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「世の中には化学毒がはんらんし、 ハイテクじゃどうじゃと躍らされている間に、 環境の汚染と人間の体の破壊が確実に進んえいる。 世界は破壊へ向っているとしか思えない。

この状況を招いたのは、 哲学が科学技術に追いついていないせいだ。

みんなで文殊の知恵を出しあい、

人間の本当の哲学を生みだそうではにか」
#川本輝夫 in #川原一之#浄土むら土呂久 (1988) の本 p.218 #いのちの哲学を
#水俣病 #PrimaryPeoples #文殊の知恵

「それが新しい科学の研究を身につけているにしろ、 いないにしろ、

技術は倫理学の一部門であって、 科学の一部門はない。」
"... technology is a branch of moral philosophy, not of science." #PaulGoodman
#ニールポストマン #テクノポリー #技術vs人間 #ポールグッドマン #新しい改革

> When some thousands of small businesses are destroyed by urban renewal, we have lost thousands of valuable networks of communication, which are enormously difficult—for modern societies almost impossible—to re-create. Artists and anarchists and radicals are always trying to create small communities—it is this perhaps which sometimes links them with arch-conservatives and reactionaries, who are also romantically attached to small communities, but to those of the past.

#NathanGlazer #PaulGoodman #TheGoodSociety #SmallCommunity

Am Sonntag 2.März 17.30 bis 20h wie jeden ersten Sonntag im Quarterly: Vierteljährlich treffen sich die Psychotherapeut*en und Interessierte auf zoom, wie am 1.12.24 zum Austausch zur Scham, am 1.9.24 zu den typischen "Experimenten" in der Gestalt-Arbeit, die aus der Empathie und Wahrnehmung der Situation durch die Begleitenden entstehen können:

zu welchen Herausforderungen regen uns die Teilnehmenden an, wie sind die Unterschiede in Ausbildungen, in Einzel- und in Gruppenarbeit, in der Supervision?

Die politische Verankerung der "alt gewordenen Hippie-Therapie", geflohen aus dem Belin der 1933er Jahre ... aus der gemeinsamen Forschung der Gruppen um Sigmund Freud und Wilhelm Reich, neu formuliert von Fritz und Laura Perls mit Paul Goodman und Dr. Hefferline in den USA

... später an der Ostküste mit Laura mehr als Einzeltherapie, an der Westküste mit Fritz mehr als Gruppengeschehen, wie angeleitete Selbsthilfegruppen immer noch in etlichen emanziparischen Einrichtungen.

https://gestaltleben.wordpress.com

#FritzPerls #Lauraperls #PaulGoodman #SigmundFreud #WilhelmReich

Gestaltleben

Gestalt vom Leib zur Körper-Poesie: Heilkunst

Gestaltleben
> The image of punishment is often provided in the film itself, as its poetic justice. Such self-punishment is evil in itself; but worse is that usually it is projected far and wide as vindictive hatred of scapegoats. And alternatively, it seeks for allies in mass suicide, as if to say, “We are not worthy to live.”
#PaulGoodman on #PacifistFilms #AntiWarMedia #WorthyToLive #DeserveToDie ???

Maps! Information Design. Reminds me of Paul Goodman's advice for Making #PacifistFilms
> Factual and analytic handling of images of war can neutralize their pornographic effect.^1

https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/a-cartography-of-genocide

/HT @olimould
via @rysiek

#PaulGoodman
^1 https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/paul-goodman/1961/designing-pacifist-films.html

A Cartography Of Genocide: Israel's Conduct In Gaza Since October 2023

Since October 2023, we have closely monitored Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and the resulting extensive civilian harm. Comprehensive cartographic analysis, published as a web platform and in-depth report, reveals patterns of violence which indicate a systematic and organised campaign to destroy life, conditions necessary for life, and life-sustaining infrastructure.

@bsmall2
Mentions of the Guillotine in Madison Smart Bell's Haiti Trilogy reminded me of a line from Paul Goodman. Somewhere he says that a person with the sensitiveness of Albert Camus can see the killing machine, the guillotine, and have visceral reaction that it is "not us"....
#PaulGoodman #GoodmanOnCamus #GoodmanOnDeathPenalty

Growing Up Absurd (Orca's version)

#orca #paulgoodman