Growing Up Absurd
by Paul Goodman
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Read in November, 2000
Despite a few dated allusions to the Beats, this is still one of the most prescient books about modern social conditions. "Perhaps there has not been a failure of communication. Perhaps the social message has been communicated clearly to the young men and is unacceptable," Goodman says, and this notion is the launching-pad for Goodman's analysis of the insufficiency of "the organized society" and its promises to meet the needs of the young. The entire thing remains relevant t
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Read in August, 2007
Parts of this are still compelling -- and still apply! -- but other bits are really marred by Goodman's major blind spot, his sexism. Nonetheless -- as an interpretation of why America is such a weird, sad, difficult place to grow up, sometimes, despite all the good things we have going for us, this is worth reading.
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Maybe high school isn't all it's cracked up to be. In fact, maybe it's a travesty. A book that doesn't seem, from what I know of it, to have lost any of its relevance over time.
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