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                                                          June 12, 2007
I played a goodman game
yesterday, and drew two
entries that are fascinating          GOODMAN_GAME
placed in opposition:

  The first entry on page 51,
  And the second on page 60...        (the third on page 143
                                       isn't of interest this time.)


                    Paul Goodman's "Five Years":


  "There are two states that balk me      "'Natives' 'Denizens' 'Aborigines.'
  as a therapist:
                                          "Aborigines are savage and have
  "(1) Jealousy.  I empathize             wild matted hair, whereas Natives
  completely.  I can predict              tend to be Barbaric with elaborate
  the next sentence and the               hair-do's that belong to the
  course of resentment, anger,            adolescent culture of decorating
  fear, and grief.  I even know           one's own body.
  how to alleviate suffering by
  holding oneself more erect              "But Denizens live in remote bogs
  and lessening depression (the           and secret forests; they infest
  mind goes blank).  But I have           areas where something higher has
  no perspective.  I do not               established itself, either like
  know how to drain energy from           rats who were always wild, or
  the insanity.  It is with the           they are Degenerates who have
  patient as with myself, we              retreated from a higher
  are forced to rely on time              civilization, e.g. the Irish.
  and chance and flattering               One can be also, in a picture in
  rationalizations and                    the _Herald-Tribune_, a Denizen
  resolutions.                            of the Bowery.

  "(2) blocked blank inability            "On the positive side, Aborigines
  to speak or have a next                 have mysterious Cthonic Powers; and
  thought of feeling.  Here my            Natives have Rights to be Respected,
  bother is just the contrary.            they must no longer be exterminated
  I often have to deal with               but kept in museums or reservations
  this state and recognize it,            so that no aspect of Culture is
  but I have no empathy with              Vandalized.
  it, I do not believe it.  It
  leaves me out, and I don't              "But nothing is done for Denizens,
  know how to woo him forth.              who are part of the flora and fauna.
                                          Denizens are just tolerated."
  "I myself can always think of
  something-- except when I am                 --p. 60
  balked.  I can write something
  even when I am balked."

          --p. 51

                             (Paragraph breaks added)




 "Having nothing in
  common" and being
  "too close to the                   Different attitudes
  problem", *both*                    toward difference...
  create barriers...



                                            An other percieved as other
                                            can be respected as such,
     Too much
                     Extremes that              Condescention =>
     Too little      create exteme              parent-to-child assistance.
                     gulfs.
                                                        HETEROPHILLIA

                          CONTROL           An other respected as another
                                            receives the neglect that
                                            every adult accords every other
                                            adult.
                        There is an
                        empathy that            They should be able to
                        paralyzes.              take care of themselves.




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