And there is a lot of official talk about the need to conserve our human resources lest Russia get ahead of us. The school system has been subjected to criticism. Naturally, grown-up citizens are concerned about the beatniks and delinquents. They consider it the part of reason and honor to wash their hands of all of it.

They will explain that the “good” jobs are frauds and sells, that it is intolerable to have one’s style of life dictated by Personnel, that a man is a fool to work to pay installments on a useless refrigerator for his wife, that the movies, TV, and Book-of-the-Month Club are beneath contempt, but the Luce publications make you sick to the stomach and they will describe with accuracy the cynicism and one-upping of the “typical” junior executive. Those of the disaffected youth who are articulate, however-for instance, the Beat or Angry young men-are quite clear about the connection: their main topic is the “system” with which they refuse to co-operate. It is strange that the obvious connections between them are not played up in the newspapers nor, in the rush of books on the follies, venality, and stifling conformity of the Organization, has there been a book on Youth Problems in the Organized System. Both are newsworthily scandalous, and for several years now both kinds of stories have come thicker and faster. In every day’s newspaper there are stories about the two subjects that I have brought together in this book, the disgrace of the Organized System of semimonopolies, government, advertisers, etc., and the disaffection of the growing generation.

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