Few Great Men Would Have

Anarchism Is Grounded In A Rather Definite Social-psychological Hypothesis: That Forceful, Graceful And Intelligent Behaviour Occurs Only When There Is An Uncoerced And Direct Response To The Physical And Social Environment; That In Most Human Affairs, More Harm Than Good Results From Compulsion, Top-down Direction, Bureaucratic Planning, Pre-ordained Curricula, Jails, Conscription, States.

The "brightness" Of The 15 Percent Might Or Might Not Indicate A Profound Feeling For The Causes Of Things; It Is Largely Verbal And Symbol-manipulating, And Is Almost Certainly Partly An Obsessional Device Not To Know And Touch Risky Matter, Just As Freud Long Ago Pointed Out That The Nagging Questions Of Small Children Are A Substitute For Asking The Forbidden Questions.

It Takes Application, A Fine Sense Of Value, And A Powerful Community-spirit For A People To Have Serious Leisure, And This Has Not Been The Genius Of The Americans.

In Our Truly Remarkable An Unexampled Civil Peace, Where There Are Rarely Fist Fights; Where No One Is Born, Is Gravely Ill, Or Dies; Where Meat Is Eaten But No One Sees An Animal Slaughtered; Where Scores Of Millions Of Cars, Trains, Elevators, And Airplanes Go Their Scheduled Way And There Is Rarely A Crash; Where An Immense Production Proceeds In Orderly Efficiency And The Shelves Are Duly Clears And Nevertheless None Of This Come To Joy Or Tragic Grief Or Any Other Final Good It Is Not Surprising If There Are Explosions.

To Translate, One Must Have A Style Of His Own, For The Translation Will Have No Rhythm Or Nuance, Which Come From The Process Of Artistically Thinking Through And Molding The Sentences; They Cannot Be Reconstituted By Piecemeal Imitation. The Problem Of Translation Is To Retreat To A Simpler Tenor Of One’s Own Style And Creatively Adjust This To One’s Author.