"The puer, the uninitiated youth, is characterized by his naivety about power. Having grown up without real male role models, this young man distrusts authority and will even hate it, and he never misses an opportunity to show how much he despises power and authority. The puer aeternus, the eternal boy, never grows out of this stage. Most of humanity consists of such people.
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Richard RohrAll Translations
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The puer, the uninitiated youth, is characterized by his naivety about power. Having grown up without real male role models, this young man distrusts authority and will even hate it, and he never misses an opportunity to show how much he despises power and authority. The puer aeternus, the eternal boy, never grows out of this stage. Most of humanity consists of such people.
""A puer, a beavatatlan ifjú jellemzője a hatalommal kapcsolatos naivitása. Ez az ifjú bizalmatlan a hatalom iránt, és még gyűlölni is fogja, ha igazi férfi példaképek nélkül nőtt fel, és nem hagy ki egyetlen alkalmat sem, hogy kimutassa, mennyire megveti a hatalmat és a tekintélyt. A puer aeternus, az örök fiú sohasem nő föl ebből a stádiumból. Az emberiség nagy része ilyen emberekből áll."