JUNE 1958PASSIVE NATION-- “Poll after poll among our youngste…
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JUNE 1958PASSIVE NATION-- “Poll after poll among our youngsters has given statistical confirmation of the phenomenon of American life which David Riesman, in his book The Lonely Crowd, named ‘other-direction’--ex
treme sensitivity to the opinions of others, with a concomitant conformity. As a nation we seem to have a syndrome characterized by atrophy of the will, hyp er trophy of the ego and dystrophy of the intellectual musculature. This rather unpleasant por-trait is an inescapable conclu-sion
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