Loss of self. Of all of the forms of impoverishment that can be seen or felt in America, loss of self, or death in life, is surely the most devastating. Beginning with school, if not before, we are systematically stripped of imagination, creativity, heritage, dreams and personal uniqueness in order to style us into productive units for a mass,

among the youth

living under domination.

When this happens, correction must come from the outside the machine

the ills of industrialism not for what they were, but as moral problems.

a synonym for quasi-governmental power, far different from the property of an individual.

couldn’t grasp — or couldn’t accept

Consciousness II is the victim of a cruel deception. It has been deprived of the search

Consciousness I sought scapegoats rather than face the forces of industrialism directly.