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(John B. Calhoun Speech 1962)

For an animal so complex as man

There is no logical reason why

A comparable sequence of events

Should not also lead to extinction

If opportunities for role fulfilment

Fall far short of the demand

By those capable of filling roles

And having expectancies to do so

Only violence and disruption of

Social organization can follow

Individuals born under these

Circumstances will be so out of

Touch with reality as to be

Incapable even of alienation

Their most-complex behaviours

Will become fragmented

Acquisition, creation and utilization

Of ideas appropriate for life

In a post-industrial-cultural

Conceptual-technological society

Will have been blocked just

As biological generativity

Just as…

In the mouse involves this species’

Most complex behaviours so

Does ideational generativity for man

Loss of these complex behaviours

Means death of the species