Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
Audre LordeTags: truth society different misfits discrimination dehumanization profit differences rejection economics-society institutional-oppression institutionalized outsiders social-outcasts surplus survival-of-the-fittest
Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such an economy, we have all been programmed to respond to the human difference between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that is not possible, copy it if we think it is dominant, or destroy it if we think it is subordinate. But we have no patterns for relating across our human differences as equals. As a result, those differences have been misnamed and misused in the service of separation and confusion.
Audre LordeTags: difference capitalism profit rejection institutionalized outsiders differences-between-people
Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars.'
'I was at Scone College, Oxford, for two years,' said Paul.
Tags: institutionalized oxford
Something must be radically wrong with a culture and a civilisation when its youth begins to desert it. Youth is the natural time for revolt, for experiment, for a generous idealism that is eager for action. Any civilisation which has the wisdom of self-preservation will allow a certain margin of freedom for the expression of this youthful mood. But the plain, unpalatable fact is that in America today that margin of freedom has been reduced to the vanishing point. Rebellious youth is not wanted here. In our environment there is nothing to challenge our young men; there is no flexibility, no colour, no possibility for adventure, no chance to shape events more generously than is permitted under the rules of highly organised looting. All our institutional life combines for the common purpose of blackjacking our youth into the acceptance of the status quo; and not acceptance of it merely, but rather its glorification.
Harold Edmund StearnsTags: acceptance freedom adventure youth civilization america status-quo idealism possibility rebellion experimentation institutionalized emigration flexibility revolt lost-generation desertion looting
The only walls that talk, are the white ones.
Anthony LiccioneTags: insane institutionalized walls one-flew-over-the-cuckoo-nest
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