“The aim is not to give human beings real goals that warrant belief, and tasks to share in, but to re-establish “belonging,” although this kind of speech and thought is precisely calculated to avoid contact and so makes belonging impossible.”

— Paul Goodman , book Growing Up Absurd

Source: Growing Up Absurd (1956), p. 38.

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