Erich Fromm speaking at UCLA 10/30/1964

Erich Fromm speaking at UCLA 10/30/1964
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[@sOnlight67]

"becoming aware of one's self...is something which interrupts the usually rhythm of always being busy...'

[@goblinsRule]

Talking about gadget man in 1964?, Erich Fromm will be very sad to know that in 2015, Gadgets are all we cared, bought, replaced old ones and bought new ones, worshipped and spent all our time in front of it.

[@germanikolaas]

Mankind has been Free Falling in this direction for quite some time. Advertisement is all about knowing the disposition of the audience you're targeting, and they're very aware of this void inside and they specifically target it aggressively for multinational corporate monopolies interests. And if the emptiness, unfufillment or insecurity is not there, then they create them in order to sell it back to you as if the solution can be solved externally, but it can only be solved internally, but that's not profitable because if it can be sold at all It can only be sold once.

[@inserthere6387]

yes, happens when you do not have a critical society! Much love my brother!

[@cecilelicad8619]

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[@darkomadjanovic7538]

at the beginning of the 20th century, the so-called radio sickness appeared. Does not exist anymore. It will be the same with today's gadgets. Don't panic!

[@smurfmama2020]

Crazy that this is more relevant than ever.

[@1978cnk]

I think we´ll soon be regognizing how important the ideas of Fromm were and still are - and how fatal forgetting them was - especially by psychologist. The cognitve revolution is about to begin.

[@SagesseNoir]

+Christoph Kuropka He was a bit ahead of his time.

[@McHungri]

@@SagesseNoir p]ol 3rdŕ/ventral

[@wickedpursuit]

Amazing back then he was talking about the gadget man and the love for the inanimate. My last phone came with the words "life companion" on the home screen from the factory. Nails on the head so far...still listening.

[@themovingdance2744]

I just decided to delete all my social medIa platforms as I hate them. Illusion of the social. I went to see the dancers of the choreographer and black civil rights era Alvin Ailey. I felt alive sharing the suffering and pain they went through to liberation of their bodies and minds which as the performances progressed showed in their movements in every muscle and sinews. I don’t have a t.v., a car, or a house and I’m not affluent either. I sacrificed everything to dance while I could. Now I am injured and need to think alternatively. I m open to the world but with a disability I can’t access the world so I won’t. Social media is designed to make people envy each other and show off how marvellous they are. And gloat about themselves as compared to others.

[@nojustno1216]

Simply brilliant.

[@naidolkusa]

Fromm has helped me a lot, especially since I translated one of his books in Albanian since 2000. I had to do a synoptic study, and read many of his works, just ro translate one book, "The Crysis of Psychoanalysis". It was easy to translate because he speaks from the heart, his humanity reverberates in all of his works. So glad I have found him again.

[@chellewny]

Fantastic, thanks so much for posting

[@newen85]

I really enjoy watching and reading about people discussing timeless matters.

[@maiwue88]

Today is the 10/30/2014, so Erich Fromms speaking at UCLA is exactly 50 years ago! If he saw the current situation in the world, he would probably be turning in his grave .....

[@morganblackwood9263]

+maiwue88 Founding Fathers: 10, 000 RPM. Erich Fromm: 17,000 RPM.

[@antpoo]

No today is jan 4 2020, and it’s even worse than 2014!

[@haroldcheeseburger]

Today is 2021, January. He has now turned at 32,000 RPM's ...in the ash can.

[@haroldcheeseburger]

@@antpoo ain't this the truth.

[@user-xy8es3rw4i]

what about now ;-D

[@user-yk9sk7pg6v]

Excellent. Thank you.

[@sOnlight67]

"...depression is to feel nothing..."

[@corpuscallosum4677]

Thanks for posting! A side note, TV no doubt is a hindrance of men's love to re-unite with nature, but that was before he knew there would be one day we could just open sesame to such archaic treasures of this giant and his wisdom !😀 Men is still full of hope, like he predicted, if we could stop killing each other massively or mentally!

[@jin-yang-9612]

So many people knows the high value of his knowledge. But most of them doesn't know about the flexibility of this psychology knowledge. And they doesn't know how to convert(How to Apply) his psychology knowledge into their society and their life,effectively.

[@GnosisMan50]

Hi Yang, You are quite correct in what you said. Practically all universities know little or nothing about Erich Fromm much less his teachings on what it means to be human. I have all his books and have yet to read them again since there is so much he has to offer- he saved my life.

[@SagesseNoir]

+GnosisMan50 I discovered Erich Fromm by accident at age 18. I didn't even know who he was but was attracted to the title of his book called THE ART OF LOVING. After reading that I then sought out numerous of his other books. I am glad I did. No, I wasn't introduced to this in the university.

[@Falas5898]

I am enlightened!

[@Falas5898]

Pure wisdom.

[@themovingdance2744]

I just decided to delete all my social medIa platforms as I hate them. Illusion of the social. I went to see the dancers of the choreographer and black civil rights era Alvin Ailey. I felt alive sharing the suffering and pain they went through to liberation of their bodies and minds which as the performances progressed showed in their movements in every muscle and sinews. I don’t have a t.v., a car, or a house and I’m not affluent either. I sacrificed everything to dance while I could. Now I am injured and need to think alternatively. I m open to the world but with a disability I can’t access the world so I won’t. Social media is designed to make people envy each other and show off how marvellous they are. And gloat about themselves as compared to others

[@bobtaylor170]

I, too, am disabled, and in an economic situation similar to yours. One danger with social media is that you can begin to think that people who are using usernames are actually at a level of rapport with you that you have become close acquaintances, if not friends. ( I think this is particularly likely in cases such as mine. I've been disabled since childhood. ) Another danger is something like its opposite: I have found myself being exceptionally rude, even cruel, to people who expressed a view which I thought was stupid. This, of course, is the ever present danger of forgetting that there is a living human being at the other end of cyberspace.

[@rethinkinghumanity3210]

We love Fromm! :)

[@gmmaal7161]

Thank you for sharing this. This is one of his best Fromm lectures I could find so far. It also helps to explain indirectly where he departs from the Frankfurt School and Herbert Marcuse. He sees all the responsibilities in the individual person, he does not criticize the capitalist society for historical materialist reasons. He remains a pure bourgeois agent.

[@amidalikaj7259]

💯🇦🇱Une jam shqiptare por e dua Shqiperine aq sa me do Shqiperia mua! Ky qe do flas tani me te gjithe degjuesit brenda ketij vendi nuk eshte ftese por detyrim! Kush do te doje Shqiperine s kam kundershtim as ka dale & as ka hyre ne Shqiperine e shtepise sime por e ka gjetur brenda shpise vet brenda shpirtit vet brenda punes vet! Quotes from Amida Likaj!

[@AnthonyStJohn1]

The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness

[@antpoo]

Nostradamus could not have predicted the future better.

[@eriklikaj8321]

....but never the less we are not aware..what is comin..maybe we are hearing to mind that feeling what universe is telling us to see..

[@svipdagx7291]

Consumerism...Passolini worried so much about this he made an overwhelming movie about it.Even stated this would become the new fascism..to consume,to use up,to feel entitled that everyone/thing is just good enough to be consumed.

[@Analysis_Paralysis]

Hammergeil!

[@5kehhn]

He may be a student of Brother Theodore.

[@OnerousEthic]

10:15 Gadget Man Fromm touches my soul with his words, describing my own social isolation by identifying the shadow of alienation created by the materialism of our affluent culture at the expense of true freedom.

[@eriklikaj8321]

....Depresion is not to feel bad deoression is unabke to feel nothing

[@amidalikaj7259]

Which I call the call of the spiritual attidute!

[@Elena-lz3vq]

Enjoyed listening to all the references raised by Erich Fromm. We indeed violate life by solely enjoying objects. if one needs a purpose those objects fulfil our creative nature. It's more an issue with the motives that are behind the material. Once we understand our spiritual nature our objects are put back in their correct order of worship. Creatures love to create so it's a case of utilising our products for the benefit of others. The Problem is always the heart. We need a new heart. Where can we buy one??? kzbin.info2gLfeeg_Pj4?feature=share

[@haroldcheeseburger]

The Age of Mania.

[@annatevesbanzon1359]

3000$ per year salary. Whoa

[@criticaltheoryresearchnetw2149]

[@aferditazaza1755]

but what I heard he eas talking will Nss Anala Kaffis.. right is this ...Look look you ate happy but you dont know...but I would add..to know we need to deep tge knowledge till.ot become believe...you know only believe pleases Gid..no sgameno fear. just..abity to feel Love ..were is Love all feseases flow out of you abd what you keep is the hope...tgat I never let you apart...you look so beautiful to me...Heremia daud kt to me..I day ot to you...I do not dayies..because I love myself..of you start lie...you can not know yurself .if you dont know well tourself ..hiw can you feel hiw deep is my love for myself...so my tounge find roots in a teunky heart..and I have such an heart of a good man...yeh I am a good man..I know that I am..in practcsl issue and still have believe I will be good...evry fay of myofe..you lnoe the tough part is waiting..bur you lnow on right time take a breath..oh no no in Raja Ampat. fish speak your language..just statt by saying icecream or coffe..it felents it is evening or morning...have a nice day as well

[@laverdadosharalibresjesus5768]

I see why there's more dead people on you tube than anywhere else. Love you Erich!

[@user-ke5qj3vy8r]

Like he said at the very end: new age

[@Ronnymikkonen2686]

Im a gadget man, I learned that as a child. I think that if am happy to be a gadjet man, it really pays good," then you can always fantasye" ,.Compared to drug or alcohol addiction!?

[@MichaelYoder1961]

around 25:00 I think he was a little off. Automation made people even more slaves with less opportunity to ask the "deep " questions. It took the pandemic for people to really ask "what's important in my life?" Europe already knows that work/life balance is essential. North American corporations/businesses haven't figured that out yet.

[@aferditazaza1755]

.......soul issue has no tracs ..no weight..in other words...our task is and our task is to should...to look fo see productive alternatives...

[@pcopeland15]

Hoffer KZbin not Fromm. Fromm is OK, but before you video bomb me more I meant Eric Hoffer. Fromm is ok though.

[@bennymarshall1320]

Actually, there is a correlation between happiness and intellect.

[@aferditazaza1755]

...what does elaniation is ...the man ceasing feeling...they start thinking what they want..and not be still what new. their brain yet think...and not be still what new their heart start feel...and not be still what new their imagination start create...common . dont make t'ha do not understand ...I ..you ..all ..we humans are not what we see ..but what what we hear...

[@9digitNo]

42:30 "We must have a centralized production." Where does that suddenly come Fromm? Says who? The oligachs or the communists? Maybe both?

[@Edward-wc8yv]

Wish From was around to analyze Woke Culture.

[@TheBros2theend]

interesting idea of violence in movies being worse than porn...that is a great thing to consider. porn is seen as immoral violence is not so much anymore. atleast, not on a screen for entertainment

[@hanskung3278]

Can we substitute faith for trust?

[@dwen5065]

We’ve got up stop using the word “spiritual”. Maybe refer to it as “the ‘s’ word”. It immediately invokes a God in some fashion and implies all sorts of external morals. We’re an evolved animal here on our own making things up as we go. There may be a God but they are removed from this existence. We have true freedom. Now what do we do with it? What is our purpose? That is what we have to address without some reference to God. I suggest a first step is simply to set things up so that we aren’t on a collision course with collapse or extinction. Once we get that straight we can consider other things. But the only way we can start to cast our attention in that direction is to dismiss our obsession with god / spiritual and focus our attention on Human Nature and how it distorts our actions into self defeating behavior in a modern world. Our focus on material consumption and display simply reflects our social nature. Buying and displaying things is one of the key ways we determine for ourselves, and demonstrate to others, our place in the social hierarchy. I think our awareness of status is second only to sex drive in how we operate in the world. These are two key components of human nature that drive so many of our actions.

[@Sokrates1985]

14:03 here you have it; the reason why people beecome more machine like, dried up and uninterested in the other

[@johnmitchell8925]

2024 🤣🥳🥳

[@amidalikaj7259]

💾🏛 By my curiosity ..because Im a little bit ignorat in this field..who knows lets answer..to this question..have much more to ask..but lets get the exact answer then start to ask the question nr.2- two ..ah thanks..remind me..oh no no I dont suffer from amnezia locale ad anemia generale how to nourish society with healthy bread in order to produce peace fruits of enjoy life as higher level until a normal handsom human say to himself..if find one to hear praise the Lord..this land is worthliving ..o no ..Adriano ..no sono Mahmud Darwish..by the way Dear Mahmud...how its the exact ..wait ..wait..no dont wait..why to wait..thats did the recent century we let..let much without making and doing question..and now ..now thats this malease therecent century let at the threshold of our century..to find the answers..ok thats I doing..but you what are doing..why speak much when cant ceace the consequences ..bible say..if cant cry with the lament why laugh..shut up please...do something else if no one need hot eggs here ..yeah you just press & push on your chair such a way..I thought to interrupt this meeting of unusual speeches and stranges production of fruits never humankind with understand ..I eat it but did not understood the taste..exactly that why Im un passo da te..imbecile..ou ou..e se fossi non lo sai.how is the exact number of the deads in the name of God..protectors or illusioners..or even many atheists took part that day didnt said nothing..what to talk..their God was dead..because being sincere they dont accept the existence of God..I dont know why but know much human people around mybeighbourhood..dont speak neither spread the good benefits of health and wealth of humble man wait in God since 1964..till 1999..and ah thanks ..And how many...since ..no ..I want exact ciphers ..per favore siediti..take care the eggs...sell if dont demolish..who are name by name ..the mans of this period of time..have suffered from the patience and thirsty for God..ecaxtly those I call man of God...if God exist..would not play so much with the Existance of humanity..if He play..why write to us ..who is man to kid with him..just a dust ..how could God permitt himself fight with a being ..yet is fighting inside planet ..who is the stronger..when still dont have found enough beliefe inside themselve to believe that the fight belong to tge Allmighty not to the mighty or thoughtly things..who is man to find by his own reason or tounge the reason why he is brought in this century and didnt came the century is coming but still dont know ..if wants to come.even time by itself its paying the rules of the prodigal..ou ou non hai sentito..dont vieni ..te lo giuro ..qui nel nostro tempo fa tanto fredo..come mai la sta ancora piovendo..hey ..hey qual pianeta arrivato adesso ..dimi ..dimmi subito..io che ti voglio a te..

[@9digitNo]

What really bothers me about this kind of lectures is the fact that ordenary people are being blamed for the culture they are born into, and of wich they are the result. Alternative lifestyles are frowned upon and often made impossible through laws and regulations. And the culture creators/enforcers are always left out of the picture, as if they don't exist. I dislike the term, but ultimately this is nothing but a very refined form of 'victim blaming'.

[@9digitNo]

tahiyamarome No!

[@mattfrankel8609]

“Nothing but…”

[@sabyasachisenapati3619]

just taken away by his fluency.

[@christinemartin63]

Isn't this the same guy who had a miserable, dysfunctional marriage and mistreated his wife? who couldn't find fulfillment in a key human relationship? Cobbler, repair your own shoes.

[@l.w.paradis2108]

What's your source for this? It sounds like you've mixed him up with someone else, or it's a standard Assange attack from people who don't like his views.

[@ileanamuntean7338]

Another unwholesome grifter, just like Freud.