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...second major symptom about today's youth, according to Lindner, lies in "the abandonment of that solitude which was at once the trademark of adolescence and the source of its deepest despairs as of its dubious ecstasies. And frequently this solitude was creative. From it some times came the dreams, the hopes and the soaring aims that charged life henceforward with meaning and contributed to giving us our poets, artists, scientists . . . But youth today has abandoned solitude in favor of pack-running, of predatory assembly, of great collectivities that bury, if they do not destroy, individuality. Into these mindless...
Violence Without Conscience. An anxious and concerned public, Lindner says, has received from the "experts" only absurd theories and warmed-over nostrums...
...youth get that way? "It is not youth alone that has succumbed to psychopathy, but nations, populations-indeed, the whole of mankind. The world, in short, has run amuck." And how did the world get that way? Dr. Lindner answers that one of the major factors producing psychopathy is damage to the ego. He sees a loss of individuality and consequent damage to the ego in the 20th century's mass political movements, social and industrial giants, wars and economic upheavals. "From loss of identity has come insecurity, and this has bred the soul-destroying plague we know...
...Adjustment." "In this perspective," says Lindner, "we can no longer regard the mutiny of youth as the product of 'bad' influences, a transient perversity that time will cure or that a few applications of social-service soporifics and mental-hygiene maxims will fix. Mutinous adolescents and their violent deeds now appear as specimens of the shape of things to come, as models of an emergent type of humanity." Furthermore, Lindner believes that society, in trying to combat the epidemic, only compounds the conditions that generate the psychopathic virus-by "the myth of conformity, the big lie of adjustment...
...forced from without to conform and from within to rebel, Lindner holds, man makes a compromise: "He rebels within the confines of conformity, he discharges his protest within the limits set by the social order that he has permitted to be erected around him." In a special sense, this is what the honored, respectably liberal Goethe did when he committed his rebelliousness to paper. But man in the mass, who does not have such comfortable literary outlets, can "become transformed into storm trooper, Blackshirt, NKVD inquisitor, guard on the long march from Corregidor, or burner of the fiery cross...