Is It Hereditary?
Guilt
Is It Hereditary? The Alternative is proud to publish this exclusive interview with Dr. Ernst Gruenwald, Dean of the School of...
...There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the more guilty a nation feels, the stronger it is...
...3. Japan is: a. an island nation just east of China...
...Q. The Alternative is very proud to be ttte j t t ~ Sertuu~ luurT~ai to puDtl,~h your Guilt Quotient or GQ Test...
...5. Gene McCarthy was denied the Democratic nomination in 1968...
...Start with simple things like feeling guilty about the fact that the ancient Phoenicians never had the benefit of television because of American imperialism and your personal apathy...
...Remember: there is something wrong going on in the world every second of the day...
...b. proudly display your bear...
...All students can be helped to build up this guilt-quotient concerning the arms race, p611utbn and the fact that John Lindsay has not been declared President by unanimous voice vote...
...GRUENWALD IN THE NEXT ISSUE...
...Flagellate myself with barbed wire because of 500 years of oppression...
...Look at the United States...
...If you feel ti~at more than one answer ?night be right, circle the one you ]eel best answers the question and ]eel guilty about it...
...Ernst Gruenwald, Dean of the School of Medicine, Rasimun University, Switzerland...
...don't tell me any of your War stories buddy...
...d. Baaaaad ass momma jumpers, heavy dudes and studs extraordinary...
...Q. Some psychoa~alysts say that ¢miltNelings are hereditary Yet you de~y this and claim enviromnent makes the difference...
...2. Black Panthers are: a. heroic fighters against white racist, genocidal, sick oppression...
...c. racist hyenas...
...GQ ANSWERS WILL BE GIVEN WITH COMMENTS BY DR...
...9. You are at a party and some jerk says "Maybe we are right in Vietnam...
...We found that the more guilty he felt the better he was appreciated by his professors and, naturally, the better his grades became...
...A. Once again: ja...
...Marx strolled through the C r y s t a l P a l a c e in June of 1851, N a s t p e r c e p t i v e l y captured the essence of the g r e a t man, conveying the r e l e v a n c e of his powerful thought...
...if has lo~ig beelt felt that the guilt-feeling phenomet~o~ which has swept across America in recer, t years is a sign of national decadence...
...Is that a fair interpretation of your theory of guilt...
...Working on roller skates while Dr...
...Roll over and go to sleep...
...There is more guilt produced in an average faculty dining room than in the entire state of New Mexico...
...4. There are poor people in the United States...
...Gruenwald will disclose his theory of guilt as a sign of national strength...
...b. the birthplace of Sonny and Cher...
...Ch'cle one letter for each questior...
...He has felt guilty about practically everything since he was six years old...
...A. Once again I answer: ja...
...d. shoot a passing racist imperialist enlisted man...
...A. Ja, it is not only fair, it is entirely correct...
...c. the vanguard of the proletariat through whose courageous acts the dehumanization of American workers will be transformed into a utopian vision of human joy...
...In short, a campus hero, both in and out of the classt~oom...
...d. racists...
...d. there are some people in the United States who have less than other people...
...In a series of tests we measured his classroom performance in light of his increasing guilt-feelings...
...c . chant Ho Ho Ho Chi Mirth and then kill yourself...
...His studies have earned for him plaudits from all over the globe, not the least of which is the coveted Bellinger Memorial Award of the International Psychoanalytical Convention held last year at Berne...
...This means: whenever Hollywood produces a World War II movie, the same guys win every time...
...This means: a. India is nicer...
...The stronger the guilt-feelings, the better the student...
...6. a. b. C. d. 7. a . b, C. d. 8. a . b. When you hear the word "slavery'" what should you do...
...Guilt-feeling has definitely replaced intelligence as a means of predicting success in school and employment...
...b. semi-literate hoodlums whose rhetoric is as hollow as their heads...
...d. the remnant from which sick white racist imperialist society will be saved...
...This young man is now editor of his campus newspaper, president of the student body and has been in and out of jail eighteen times in the past two years...
...d. Mao is nicest of all...
...c. a dead reminder of capitalist fascist genocide rotten white imperialist hegemony...
...Then, when you have developed confidence, feel guilty about polluted streams, low wages among apple-pluckers and the breakdown of relations between Uganda and Tanzania...
...Exhaustive research proves conclusively that it is guilt-feeling which creates success, not the other way around...
...The United States of America is: a. the citadel of reactionary, white racist imperialism...
...How do you account for thedifference betweeti the universally held vww and your oun...
...A student at Berkeley has, for ten years, felt personally responsible for the lack of transistor radios among the Bantus of South Africa...
...If a child is a product of the union of a liberal mother who marched barefoot in Selma and a radical father who inherited a guilt-producing fortune, that child is of course going to have an advantage over other of his peers which will in later years even multiply his already healthy accumulation of guilt...
...The book, Guilt: Is It Hereditary...
...Q. Dr...
...c. you should burn yourself in protest, using all paper money in your possession as kindling...
...Might not his ,quilt-feeli~gs stem from the fact that lie is such o success...
...Might if ~ot be the other way aroutid...
...Flagellate myself with barbed wire because of 400 years of oppression...
...THE ALTERNATIVE ALL AMERICAN GUILT QUOTIENT TEST The ]ollowh~g questions should be a~lswered by circling the letter next to the word or phrase that you /eel best completes the stateme~lt...
...HAVE YOU CIRCLED ONLY ONE LETTER...
...This means: a. our sick, vicious, ugly, racist system must go...
...I do not deny this...
...b. white racist sick degenerate racists were to blame...
...Last year I examined the case of a young man, let us call him Student X, who attends one of the nation's most prestigious universities...
...The United States defeated Nazism in Europe...
...Flagella.te myself with rusty barbed wire because of 784 years of oppression...
...The more things he feels guilty about, the deeper his guiltfeelings are, and the more vehemence with which he displays his guilt-feelings, the better he will do in class...
...This is hut one of many artful and provocative illustrations appearing in the new book Thomas N a s t ' s Christmas Drawings .for the Human R a c e , recently published by Harper and Row...
...Gruenwald insists that guilt is not hereditary and that therefore environmental conditions are of utmost importance in the building up of much-needed guilt-feelings among ,middle-ciass children...
...8 The A l t e r n a t i v e J a n u a r y , 1972 Guilt: Is It Hereditary...
...b. kick him in the groin, tear off your clothes and urinate on the rug...
...c. the rotten, lousy, sick, despicable, awful system has to go...
...We have fascinating examples of what might be called super-guilt-feelings which have resulted in astounding classroom performances...
...b. our sick, vicious, white, racist, imperialist, rotten, cancerous system must go...
...He feels guilty about the history of slavery in the United States, poverty in India, the decay of the cities, the war in Vietnam, the fact that the Los Angeles Dodgers have not done very well in recent years and, finally, the fact that Eugene Debs was never elected President...
...c. millions of people, perhaps more, are starving...
...If I understa~id you correctly, your ~iew theory sees guilt as something to be desired...
...In a book to be published next year, Dr...
...d. the single most vicious, hated, degenerate, imperialist, rotten, lousy, fascist, colonialist, oppressive, genocidal, unspeakable country in the world and the nation with the most flush toilets per capita on this dirty, foul, globe of woe...
...1. American Indians can best be described as: a. people who appear from time to time in movies with horses...
...White working class people are: racist pigs...
...is expected to be one of the publishing sensations of the season because of its central theme which is contrary to the findings of most American researchers into guilt phenomena...
...d. where all those little yellow guys live...
...This means: a. the Democrats are maybe smarter than they look...
...Gruenwald is generally considered to be a pioneer in the investigation of ps:¢choneurotic manifestations of happiness among middleclass children...
...But in recent years we have seen guilt-feelings rather than intelligence become the criterion by which we can measure whether or not a student is going to do well in school or The above drawing of Karl Marx is the creation of Thomas Nast, the 19th c e n t u r y ' s most renowned political cartoonist...
...He has not listened to a radio in all that time as punishment for what he considers his guilt in denying the Bantus the fruits of capitalist exploitation...
...The average middle-class youth in college today is unsuccessful in classroom and social activities not because of his intelligence level but because of his guilt-feeling level...
...life...
...What I do deny is the fascist theory that The Alternative January, 1972 9 some children are doomed to fail in college political science courses because they simply do not have enough "'innate" guilt-feelings...
...d. calmly walk to the center of the room, take out your Zippo lighter and immolate yourself while whistling "'The Democratic People's Republic of Vietnam Is Going to Defeat the White Imperialist Aggressors Blues...
...GO BACK AND CHECK YOUR ANSWERS...
...10...
...You: a. punch him in the mouth and disembowel yourself...
...When you hear the name '~reddy" yon: a. hide your sister in the closet and swallow the keys to the car...
...the most fascist state won...
...c. living symbols of the hypocrisy of Christianity...
...A. Only this: it is a myth that some people have guilt-feelings and some others do not and nothing can be done about it...
...The United State-s-is the richest ceuntl3' ht the wor!d...
...ARhough it still has far to go in building up what I like to call "'a guilt-hank," it has guiltfeelings about poverty both at home and abroad, starvation, pollution, racism, genocide and the War of 1812...
...If it tries harder and builds up more guilt about its standing army it will become so strong that Russian occupation won't bother it at all...
...If you don't feel guilty about it, who will...
...Since his guilt-feelings increased in a precise ratio we were able to break down thes~feelings into "'bits" of data which: were fed into a computer...
...c. the last stronghold of white racism and enzyme detergents...
...T he Alternative is proud to publish this exclusive interview with Dr...
...Q. Would more guilt-feelings make our nation psychologically stronger...
...A. Of course we investigated that possibility thoroughly...
...b. a living reminder of white racist imperialist nuclear-bomb dropping genocide...
...Q. But how do you k~ow t hat this success is a result of his guilt-feelings...
...b. it has happened here...
...c. blush and stammer and get sticky all over...
...Q. Doesn't this fly in the face of classic psychoanalytical theory...
...White students can be helped to feel guilty about what happened three hundred years ago in slave-holding Virginia...
...d. nobody cares...
...Heretofore children were endlessly measured for their "intelligence" and there were fruitless attempts to bolster the intelligence levels of those who did not do well on these intelligence tests...
...Build up to feeling personally guilty for the War of the Roses and the Chicago fire...
...Do you have any advice to give those who take this test...
...we fire-bombed Dresden didn't we...
...b. tragic victims of racist oppression...
...bigoted running dogs .of corporate fascism...
...Guilt is our colleges' most important product...
...black students can be helped to feel guilty about not feeling guilty about not hating white students...
...Seek ways to feel guilty about something...
...Take your thne...
...A. Those who say that guilt can be inherited are, of course partially correct...
Vol. 5 • January 1972 • No. 4
