Word: instinctiveness
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...said the intruder. Vag had never seen him in his life before. "My very good friend." "I'm broke," replied Vag, out of absent minded instinct, to the knitted set of eyebrows which loomed menaeingly over an opened copy of "General Education in a Eroe Society...
Every year about this time the University issues a catalogue of the courses to be offered during the following academic season. With the help of this slender booklet, instinct, and whatever odd knowledge he may have chanced to acquire over the lunch table, the student must make out his program for the next term. The nature of the catalogue is such that instinct and odd knowledge provide most of the guidance until the actual opening of classes, when many students shop for courses, jam into already over-crowded lecture halls, and deluge University Hall with a waterfall of petitions...
Vanity of Vanities. "Instinct" is the heart of Author Wylie's philosophy, and he defines it as famed Psychiatrist Carl Jung did, as the "collective unconscious," i.e., the idea that hidden in all men is a "common instinct" or basic "energy," which "governs living behavior in individuals, species, and in evolution." Individuals and nations that thwart this timeless instinct - either through unnatural laws and institutions or by catering to the day-to-day vanities of the ego -call down upon their heads neuroses, national-madness, and even extinction of their species...
Author Wylie has little difficulty in showing that much of U.S. life is lived in opposition to what he calls instinct. He considers it intolerable that crude and artificial concepts of patriotism, economics, racial distinctions or hoary traditions should confine the individual to a limited scope of learning and living...
Many readers may accept some of his diatribes against contemporary life, but just as many are likely to feel that his magic "instinct" is largely a grab bag into which he pops anything he approves of-e.g., the human conscience, which he blandly describes as "the natural candor . . . of instinct." Most readers will find the Essay's philosophy half-baked...