“A kind of calculated perversity”
Researching Ernest Becker was a thrill. In the process, we unearthed audio recordings that largely have have gone unheard in fifty years. Becker erupts from the reels as incisive, charismatic and fearless. On a few separate occasions, Becker seems to relish playing the gadfly and calling out a morally-bankrupt scientific establishment.
In the audio excerpt below, Becker empties his guns on modern sociology, biology, and psychology.*
* NOTE ON RECORDING: The recording apparatus appears to slowly fail around 30 minutes into a 90 minute session. As a result, the last hour of the reel is inaudible.
