TR Misc. 'lack of recognition"

[Michael Bailey]

 Mark Kohut
> Charles Reich writes of the narrowness of the roles we
> have to live within in society. About a sophisticated young lawyer
> [Reader, he was one] praised for lawyerly skills he sez:
>
> "His role self accepts the praise, but his true self withers from
> lack of recognition......"
>
> A true deeper self than our public one..........
> How manifested in The Recognitions?
>

this sort of goes back to something Pynchon mentioned in Vineland: by
the time of the Reagan years, kids were no longer in need of forcible
re-education at the hands of Brock Vond and PREP - they were thinking
in terms of jobs and money and public recognition, and no longer in
terms of "finding themselves" or public service or joining a movement
or suchlike --- instead, they wanted the alligator shirts and the
Pouilly Fuisse and the BMW et al

but, the idea that there's a true deeper self than the public one -
which hearkens back to "what use is it to gain the whole world and
lose your soul"
and development of a personal ethical stance separate from and
superior to "judgement by bank balance"

it's really important, right?



which it's easy to say...