Growth from Control Songs by David Garland

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15.	Growth	1:58

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Growth

Growth’s not growth if it’s prescribed growth. 
Growth is only growth when it breaks with the prescribed form. 
Mostly what passes for growth is the fulfillment of  Prescribed expectations. 
One learns, bit by bit, how to be a boy, etcetera. 
One grows into, not out of– 
into, not out of prescribed expectations. 
A culture determines its character 
by slandering alternatives, and encouraging 
growth on its own terms.
Describing prescriptive restrictions,
describing prescriptive restrictions...

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from Control Songs, released September 1, 1986

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