The goal of radicalism is to improve the human condition, not to prove one's own moral superiority.

The goal of radicalism is to improve the human condition, not to prove one's own moral superiority.

Jack Newfield
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A study of the San Francisco Beat enclave by psychiatrist Dr. Francis Rigney in the late 1950's showed 60 percent "were so psychotic or crippled by tensions, anxiety and neurosis as to be nonfunctional in the competitive world." In contrast, the several studies released so far made of the student radicals at Berkeley show them to be stable, serious, and of above-average intelligence. The point is that the Beats had to "cop out" of the Rat Race because they couldn't perform; the New Left chooses to reject a society it could easily be successful in.

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The goal of radicalism is to improve the human condition, not to prove one's own moral superiority.

Jack Newfield, A Prophetic Minority: A Probing Study of the Origins and Development of the New Left
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