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The Transformation as Sandbox Syndrome

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Belief that a social transformation is happening serves to keep it from happening. Behaviors associated with the sandbox of political impotency include: pronouncement of actual or imminent success, confusion of goals and results, an acritical stance, hubris, an incapacitating dialect, pseudoholism, egalitarian blinders, and self-centeredness. Upward growth to escape the Sandbox Syndrome is a necessary ingredient of any serious social change.

Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Vol. 23, No. 1, 7-15 (1983)
DOI: 10.1177/0022167883231002


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