> ... the central practical problem of our society is how to handle bigness—how to avoid waste and fragmentation and dehumanization without centralization, which, by definition (we have discovered rather later than Goodman), increases these things even while attempts to remedy them.
- https://www.nytimes.com/1973/02/18/archives/paul-goodman-outsider-looking-in.html
#PaulGoodman #bureaucracy #scale #DavidGraeber #UtoipaOfRules #人間の尺度 #humanscale

> "To Goodman, drop-outs... beatniks are all victims of the same process," #PeterSchrag, "and have all refused to accept the terms of organized society and the empty #ratrace ...which it imposes."... He admired the individual and despised organizational personnel ...any "enterprises extrinsically motivated and interlocked.." (...liberalism often took him close to... the radical Right.)

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/paul-goodman

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