I am currently doing a masters in philosophy thanks to this man. A true humanist. You can feel his love for humanity in every sentence of every books that he has written.
@user-ec3cw6dw7k2 жыл бұрын
Here planning to do an MA in philo thanks to him! Which country do you study in?
@humanitywins7159 Жыл бұрын
Rajiv Malhotra on the "U-Turn" Theory: "Westerners appropriate Indic ideas through a process called the U-Turn. In its basic form the U-Turn Theory states that a member of the dominant Western culture first whole-heartedly learns the Indic tradition. He or she, for a variety of reasons, then repackages it and projects the knowledge gained from India from within his/her own culture. The next thing you know is that he/she claims these ideas were always an integral part of Western culture. Some, but not all, also start demonizing the source Indic traditions using a lot of pretexts, such as calling them "world negating" or accusing them of "human rights" abuses." "As an example, Malhotra examined on how Jung appropriated much from Indic thought - including key ideas of collective unconscious, archetypes, and synchronicity. Jung met Sanchi and visited the Ramakrishna Order in Calcutta, from the ideas of whom he built the ideas of the Collective Unconscious, but did the classical U-Turn from Indic thought and later claimed these thoughts as his own original ones. In all, Malhotra has done 50+ case studies of such U-Turns, and each has its own story as to why and how it was done. U-Turns have played an important role in shaping Western ideas, literature and popular culture; yet they are typically ignored in discussions on the history of ideas. The U-Turn Theory also explains that many Indians internalize the Western adaptations of Indian culture and re-import them into India: For instance, Tantric healing is more fashionable as "energy healing" or as reiki; yoga's return to India's Westernized middle class owes a lot to the West's adoption of it; and Western research on cognitive science and neuroscience includes yogis who are mere "subjects." In short: He never gave credit to where his "groundbreaking" findings came from.. Even short: An intellectual thief.
@yelkhan20024 ай бұрын
@@humanitywins7159Imagine if philosophers had to introduce their inspiration every time they mentioned an idea. That just would not be possible. More than that, intellectual property, especially in philosophy, doesn't work like copyright does. First, refer to the first thing I mentioned: people like Jung are just so well-read that if they had to talk about their sources, their books would just be long lists of authors and titles. Second, philosophers often achieve the same results in different ways: for example, Spinoza's ethical conclusions are often compared to Buddhism, but I highly doubt that Spinoza knew anything about eastern religions considering the time he was living in. the same thing goes for Stoicism and Buddhism. Even if Jung was inspired by Indic ideas, he had no obligation to credit them; his ideas of the collective unconscious and archetypes are so complicated that he likely drew from hundreds of sources for them anyway, with the Indic ones only being a part. Also, what specific parts of Indic philosophy resemble Jung for you?..
@inthetearoom3 ай бұрын
lol@@humanitywins7159
@Carlos442 жыл бұрын
Can you imagine any network broadcasting such a program today given the incredible dumbing down of the American population? I can't.
@amandaandbug49148 жыл бұрын
I love the varying demeanor here. The interviewer who is perplexed yet intrigued so responds with aggressive inquisitiveness and Dr. Fromm, so firm and confident in his convictions, remains calm and descriptive and concise the whole time. RESPECT.
@alexhe75126 жыл бұрын
Amanda Loughlin I love the unvarying confidence in your smile here. Love is love😗
@AudiophileTubes5 жыл бұрын
Dr. Fromm's keen observational knowledge manifests itself in his level, pointed demeanor. His accurate take on the state of humanity, which rings more true even today, demands our attention and respect.
@DSnake655 Жыл бұрын
That encapsulates Wallace exactly...for the most part.
@samanthatermizi6 жыл бұрын
1) We are afraid to be intimate with people. Superficial friendliness. 2) There is political lethargy. 3) One cannot fall in love. One has to be in love. Loving and the ability to love becomes one of the most important things to life. Love is not easy. Love is postulated as one of the greatest accomplishment. 4) We must make a decision of values. 5) We have separated our intellect and emotion. Our emotional life has become very impoverished.
@kikeheebchinkjigaboo66315 жыл бұрын
Samantha Termizi Marxist alienation spooky.
@ricardogondim38319 жыл бұрын
Amazing, he is even more relevant today than in 1958
@herzwatithink92899 жыл бұрын
+Ricardo Gondim More prophet than analyst? Or is it that deeper analysis is far-sighted analysis, and far-sighted analysis is, in itself, prophecy?
@alexnetrover38257 жыл бұрын
Don't tell me. Greetings from ex USSR :)
@antigen45 жыл бұрын
well i don't see why he wouldn't be ... as he predicted - we are getting deeper into the hole here!
@Marxist24 жыл бұрын
And in the days of the covid 19 even more relevant.
@tacodeazul17134 жыл бұрын
Mmmm, I'm not so sure. He was wrong about our sensitivity to consumerism vs. the threat of nuclear war - the 1960s, cold war, and cuban missile crisis tested that. The 1960s and the Vietnam war also were tantamount to the ability of people to experience counter culture and different ways of living... even within the borders of the U.S. All of this shortly after the bloodiest and most uncertain half-century ever recorded... I'm not sure I would have been open to the idea that socialism was the answer, especially after turning on the TV at night and hearing it on prime time on the one of three channels available. His analysis of socialism is also nice through rose colored glasses, but the reality is that socialism is, without any room for negotiation here PERIOD, the literal use of the state for the purpose of dissolving private property. There is no misapplication of the term here. You use the state to eventually result in a stateless utopia of freedom and community involvement and meaning. You know, Communism. I studied Marx for years in college and still have those texts in addition to Escape From Freedom and The Sane Society, among others. His criticism hits hard and is meaningful and still relevant. His solution is brutally, misguidedly, ignorantly (especially concerning the events to follow shortly after this very interview in the world stage), incorrect... to say the least.
@austincottrell40625 жыл бұрын
"It doesn't matter if one uses God or doesn't; what matters is which experience one has" Beautifully said.
@criticaltheoryresearchnetw21494 жыл бұрын
Fromm was incredible, and is still strikingly relevant today. Thank you for this.
@johnmaisonneuve9057 Жыл бұрын
I have an extensive library of Dr. Fromm’s books, including very good studies, and his writings etc. are so extensive and especially relevant in today very troubling time. He was a good friend to D. Z. Susuki. Terrific combination.
@alexaramat10 жыл бұрын
Great interview, discovering Fromm one of the best things that happened to me.
@butternutfingers5 жыл бұрын
Aleksandar Duric Me too. He’s been a mentor to me for decades.
@jingchen96102 жыл бұрын
I have read "escape from freedom" numerous times
@santaclauseking11 жыл бұрын
On another note Mike Wallace is a pretty good interview I wish modern interviews were more like this where questions are answered and the person actually has the time to explain himself and rarely get interrupted.
@charleswinokoor60232 жыл бұрын
Wallace was not just pretty good but a great TV interviewer.
@Soyarita446 жыл бұрын
"The manual worker doesn't have to sell his smile." I love it.
@jeroenlutters60287 жыл бұрын
What a great interview. The sharp analysis of Fromm is just as important today as it was 60 years ago !
9 жыл бұрын
This is what a real interview looks like.
@mercedeswalt66219 жыл бұрын
What makes you say that?
@mercedeswalt66219 жыл бұрын
I know their Jews, but what makes you say they're reading from a script?
@mercedeswalt66219 жыл бұрын
If you're serious, imma scream, if you're a troll, imma scream even harder. But I guess this means that "this is what a real interview looks like." Ha, Jews 1, you 0, because the burden of proof is on you pal.
@schuymalloy9 жыл бұрын
***** Brain envy?
@lindacianchetti35995 жыл бұрын
THIS was why tele vision was put into every houseHOLD. LOL PROGRAMMING MINDS FOR 2019
@licenselessrider44867 жыл бұрын
Never heard of this man before, clicked while from searching for Ovid, It's that feeling I only get once every few years, that there is a new person I've discovered who really gets it. Alan Watts was the big one for me, then successively Jung, Huxley, Charles Eisenstein, Ellul, and a few others I'm forgetting but this man is laying it especially plainly, I love him already, going to read/listen-to his work.
@ferasusif7 жыл бұрын
licenseless rider im telling you from now...ur gona read all his books.
@John-ds6jz Жыл бұрын
Because hollow wood doesn’t advertise him
@CarianneRHixson11 жыл бұрын
"his work is to a large extent, meaningless, because he is not related to it. He is increasingly part of a big machinery, social machinery, governed by a big bureaucracy...and I think the American man unconsciously hates his work very often, because he feels trapped by it, imprisoned by it-- because he feels that he is spending most of his energy for something which has no meaning in itself."
@cellocovers39822 жыл бұрын
I got Fromm's "Man for Himself" at a thriftstore years ago while I was on a book collecting binge. I only today took a look at it even though it's been sitting in my room for years. I maybe would have never looked at it if I hadn't gotten covid and had to take the day off work. Just a few pages in and it's pushed me to examine different aspects of my life. Amazing how circumstances work out and what influence a few pages of a book can have.
@pdelaprimm4 жыл бұрын
Such a fine interview, applying transcendent theological, psychological and philosophical ideas, and more. Much to be gleaned.
@Zasztowtles4 жыл бұрын
The most amazing is that all Fromm says is still actual and might be said to-day. That's a prophecy in its pure sense.
@deanray1311 жыл бұрын
This is absolutely amazing.
@100hundert13 жыл бұрын
Thank you for uploading. I love Fromms work and "To Have Or To Be" really kickstarted my interest in the deeper spheres of living.
@energyeternal11 жыл бұрын
amazing man. true intellectual. deep spiritual and interpersonal insight but willing to get in to it and shake people up a bit to wake them up to reality (assuming anyone is listening).
@jaysunk39639 жыл бұрын
"Manipulated consent", well put.
@mediaresearch46195 жыл бұрын
19:30
@saidal-housni77904 жыл бұрын
Manufactured consent/ Noam Chomsky
@aracelimelgar35838 жыл бұрын
Erich, thank you for living human beings so dearly. You're truly resting in peace. Will always live and admire your love for us.
@brianjames99469 ай бұрын
There are very few interviews after 196o that are worth watching. A brave new world indeed.
@jeremyreagan90859 жыл бұрын
Eric Fromm is brillient if you know German check out his lecture Der Moderne Mensch und Seine Zukunft. He is amazing in understanding our current sitution with the global corporations. His comments on religion in relation to America are exstremely insightful.
@fangugel38129 ай бұрын
Thank you for making this available! I’ve read most of Fromm’s books but have only recently discovered interviews with him.
@FernandaGutz2212 жыл бұрын
OMG This is wonderful! First Dali now Erich Fromm!!! Thanks a million for sharing!
@Soyarita447 жыл бұрын
Erich, I have learned how this world functions because of you.
@remfanbeforu10 жыл бұрын
Yes, Dr. Fromm's statements are relevant today. What a gem!
@JacintoAlvarezdelVas10 жыл бұрын
Great! We haven't learnt almost anything about what really matters since then. It's sad.
@lindacianchetti35995 жыл бұрын
Jacinto Alvarez del Vas We have been socially mind controlled by this scripted PROGRAMMING
@alexxx44349 ай бұрын
The big socio-economical machine keeps on chugging.
@jeremyreagan90858 жыл бұрын
Wish we had interviews like this one today hard to believe my mother was only 4 years old in 1958 and now in 2016 the Media is in such a wreck!
@JazzLoversChannel8 жыл бұрын
+Jeremy Reagan I thought the same about interviews and media today...
@TheGoltra8 жыл бұрын
We do, they're just called podcasts now.
@jeremyreagan90858 жыл бұрын
One cannot compare podcasts to interviews in my view.
@8Steady8 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I agree! Podcasts are so dumb! They can't possibly be compared to TV. That's where it's at. And TV is not nearly as good as radio. Man, if only everybody got their interviews from radio, that's when people were really enlightened. But you know when people really had it great?... Newspapers. I don't think you can consider it factual or newsworthy unless you're getting your news printed on a piece of paper.
@jeremyreagan90858 жыл бұрын
Actually, if you look into our early newspapers of the 18th or 19h centuries you can see how far media has degraded to useless verbiage. In previous eras you actually had largely raw opinion of the editors and authors. Now it is deliberately distorted for business interests only. Imagine our new President doing as Abraham Lincoln and actually meeting the lowest in our society and caring what they had to say about policy.
@ericswolgaard18089 жыл бұрын
One aspect that strikes me in this interview is the keen, penetrating and sometimes hard-hitting quality of Mike Wallace's questioning. Does anyone do this anymore???
@jjtech1958 жыл бұрын
+Eric Swolgaard I noticed the same thing - I can't imagine this interview being on the television today. This kind of questions are not being asked nowadays, minus Russia Today maybe (sometimes)
@silat138 жыл бұрын
+Eric Swolgaard The days before News became profit driven.
@TheDionysianFields7 жыл бұрын
Pretty good. He wasn't asking the questions I would ask but he at least put Fromm on the spot and made him elaborate on the more significant tenets of his ideology.
@jengleheimerschmitt79416 жыл бұрын
Try Dave Rubin. He does real interviews.
@AudiophileTubes5 жыл бұрын
VICE does, albeit on a smaller scale.
@davef.28112 жыл бұрын
Interesting. Doubtful an interview of this quality could be conducted today.
@alexxx44349 ай бұрын
66 years later... Aged like a good wine.
@Guitarletita11 жыл бұрын
Erich Fromm's philosophy should be one of the main aims of education. Every single person deserves to have access to his books. Thanks for this interview and for Aldous Huxley's!
@Soyarita446 жыл бұрын
Erich, I love you because you taught me how to love others and myself.
@ericgeorge443410 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for posting. Socialism aside, Dr. Fromm's thoughts are just as pertinent to our times as they were 55 years ago. If only such clear-thinking men were still with us and given such a wide audience.
@RedroomStudios5 жыл бұрын
read his book The Fear of Freedom about 15 years ago. such a great thinker.
@baboon252512 жыл бұрын
amazing. This would be too radical to put on primetime TV today, of course.
@yangjin1711 жыл бұрын
A man who I most respect in my life is Erich Fromm.
@corpuscallosum46779 ай бұрын
Thanks for posting! To call him a psychoanalyst does him injustice! Just like all the prophets, sages and poets before and will come after him, they are the triumphant, the pinnacle of human evolution manifested to warn and alert us: if we don't change and be meticulously aware, wars and possibly doomsday is inevitable. How many roads must a man walk down?
@clairewalkingsticks89789 жыл бұрын
"Socialism is exactly the opposite what many, most people mean by socialism. I understand by socialism in which the aim of production is not profit, but the use." -Erich Fromm Making good products! Sounds ironically familiar.
@lindacianchetti35995 жыл бұрын
Claire Walkingsticks Its programming.
@DJxSGGxNeo3 жыл бұрын
A lot of the great minds and genius writers of that time gave their solution in the form of Socialism, though I am totally against it, in fact that is what has caused all the problems in the world lately, least the majority of them. Least from what I see and believe. I am more of a Anarchist, a local government style of it.
@AgendaFiles3 жыл бұрын
@@DJxSGGxNeo Then a Communist. Anarchism is a Communist aim.
@AgendaFiles3 жыл бұрын
This quote does not refer to "making good products" but to the removal of exploitation of labour, of production, not of products.
@CippiCippiCippi2 жыл бұрын
On our lack of democracy: "...if one has no possibility of acting, one's thinking becomes empty and stupid..."
@raffaojeda9 жыл бұрын
Gracias por tanto aporte a la humanidad Mr. Fromm, otro adelantado a su tiempo.
@EastLancashireJohn13 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting, it was fascinating to hear Fromm speak at length.
@John-ds6jz Жыл бұрын
“Democracy is, when a person feels and acts responsibly and participates in decision making “E . Fromm 👍
@gustav4351 Жыл бұрын
In a "real democracy" we wouldn't even call or think of it as democracy... it would be blasphemous.
@kikoneify12 жыл бұрын
is it just me or we don't have interviews like those anymore. SAD!
@LeeBarry4 жыл бұрын
Watched this contemporaneous with the reading of "Escape From Freedom", an excellent book on Sel-actualization and navigating psychological paradoxes on what freedom really means. This is different from the spiritual practice of transcending excessive thinking and analysis, which I think is where contemporary culture tends to lean, rather than on endless psychoanalysis. I'm looking forward to reading more of his work.
@verablau3 жыл бұрын
Remarkebly deep, sharp and true: more than 60 years ago and today, in 2021....
@user-yk9sk7pg6v4 жыл бұрын
thank you.
@maddycooper974310 жыл бұрын
So you suggest that we go to Dr Erich Fromm and to Karl Marx? Well, er, not exactly. I would be in very good company though... < I love this conclusion. He is so humble and good humoured. I will continue to find joy reading his books and discovering more about him. Such an inspiring and penetrating mind.
@fromthesidelines12 жыл бұрын
At the time, "THE MIKE WALLACE INTERVIEW" aired on ABC's Sunday night schedule at 10pm(et).
@np46536 жыл бұрын
"And people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made"
@Avusmalus12 жыл бұрын
great thinker... opens my mind
@heressomestuffifound2 жыл бұрын
One of the most valuable things about interviews like this is the demonstration that people were once more intelligent and had longer attention spans. Even allowing for the fact that this is an interview with an intelligent man, imagine a conversation like this being televised or going viral on social media today? Absurd right? Note also the lack of quick camera angle changes, the balanced and thoughtful demeanor of the speakers etc.
@ivanboyraz29367 жыл бұрын
'Consumption crazy and production crazy' - so what's changed since Erich Fromm's times?!
@reidwhitton62486 жыл бұрын
The production side has been outsourced. America now employs most of the third world to meet the demands of its ravenous consumption of material goods.
@thegladiator448911 жыл бұрын
Great Video...
@princeandrey7 жыл бұрын
I can't take much more of this. Erich Fromm, renowned psychoanalyst and social thinker completely leaves out the condition of Blacks in the US in 1958! He's spot on about alienated labor but I can't go beyond 5.27 I was already 15 years old when this was aired, and i've seen so much history since the 1950's and I've seen so much detritus rise to the top as our country devolves into a corporate state, that I am crushed.
@danacoleman4007 Жыл бұрын
Very interesting. It is astounding to me that this type of interview was available once upon a time in mainstream media. Remember folks, what this man is espousing is terrifying to the wealthy and privileged who have their boot on the throats of the average worker.
@trekvogel211 жыл бұрын
This man was a prophet. Already in 1958, he clearly saw the problems that Western society is facing in the 21st century.
@lindacianchetti35995 жыл бұрын
trekvogel2 Not so. THIS was social engineering. A psyops. Scripted to engineer minds subconsciously
@ericloraakakidvicious.63464 жыл бұрын
Wow yo . we went from this ,to the Kardashians on T.V.
@ronaldosanchez320710 жыл бұрын
Is this interview in 1958 or 2014. What he was saying in 1958 is very chilling because it is very relevant in today's society. I wonder what he would say about Twitter and Facebook and young people who spend their free time playing video games and texting and not actually socializing with real people in real time. Today's man in this capitalist society is probably more shallow and lonely and ignorant than man during the 1950's, despite having so much information available at his finger tips. Perhaps Karl Marx was absolutely right. In fact, we should all read Marxism to understand exactly the same issues that Doctor Fromm mentions from a different point of view. It might enlighten modern man to the fact that he/she is nothing more and nothing less than a cog in the machine that makes a minority very rich, and leaves him/her empty and exhausted; chasing his/her tail day in and day out.
@debtpeon10 жыл бұрын
Karl Marx is part of the reason why the society is heading in the wrong direction. The "capitalist" society is exactly what Marx was trying to _protect_. Capitalism is _usury_ and Marx was in clear support of usury and in fact ruefully tried to blame the Catholic Church for it. The crisis that is being experience is a crisis of consumption because money is being withheld from the populous and is being transferred to the FIRE sector -- with increasing velocity since the mid-1970's. The attack on production falls within the Marxist rubric of blaming societal problem on the "bourgeoise" (the entrepreneurial class) in order to shift the focus away from the usurers -- the very class that Marx was seeking to cover.
@thofou7610 жыл бұрын
Deadbeat Pennyless Marx was, first and foremost, an *analyst* of capitalism. It's your interpretation that he was its *protector*. A very peculiar interpretation, I might add.
@debtpeon10 жыл бұрын
thofou76 First and foremost Marx was a descendant of Talmudic Rabbis and was mentored by the inventor of Communism and Zionism -- Moses Hess. Hess often subbed for Marx and was also known as the "Red Rabbi". Marx "analysis" of "Capitalism" was his greatest _red herring_ in order to confuse the productive sectors of the economy with the financial sectors. Prior to Marx the word "Capitalism" was used only to describe those who operated solely in the finance sectors.
@elmargico98588 жыл бұрын
I am slways surprised if I listen to Fromm or Orwell or read their books,and to see that they have already warned the human beings that days to what we are running to if we stay doing what we do!Mean:Totality and Depression!!And both has become not only true,it has become worth than that.We are living in a dangerous time which we can still change if we want!
@cardenasce758 жыл бұрын
Awesome conversation !
@John-ds6jz Жыл бұрын
“American people are more concern about carburetor of their car than atomic war that can wipe out 100 millions 😮” wow . What a disastrous situation we are facing today ‼️‼️‼️‼️
@ceacatop231511 жыл бұрын
Por supuesto que si, si me interesa gracias por el apoyo
@majobr1008 жыл бұрын
amazing, and Mike Wallace is surprisingly astute too! wow!
@MrKlemps7 жыл бұрын
It would be a good idea to reflect on the fact that this conversation was carried on a major television network in May of 1958. Today you couldn't get something this serious even on the so-called "Learning"channel (TLC). The "death" has been a lot slower than Fromm warned about and predicted but it is happening nonetheless. The relatively literate, broad audience assumed by the doyens of TV networks 60 years ago is, alas, no more.
@doglover31334 жыл бұрын
very relevant today
@SebastianSastre8 жыл бұрын
Real journalism for a change =\
@DanLackey11 жыл бұрын
Few of us are losing any sleep over those our government is murdering everyday throughout the world.
@lindacianchetti35995 жыл бұрын
Daniel Lackey i lose sleep over it. THIS interview is scripted mind control. A psyops. Social engineering for 2019
@kennethmorrison76892 жыл бұрын
The first "serious" book. I read as a teenager was Escape From Freedom. It set a course for my life.
@trappart92092 жыл бұрын
What your life is like now, sir?
@nmyph912 жыл бұрын
Thank you. Another price of data that supports my view that most prophets are just very good at OBSERVING REALITY.
@geoffreynhill2833 Жыл бұрын
The necessity of marketing oneself is paramount now. One must not only consume, one must be consumable. 👺
@geoffreynhill2833 Жыл бұрын
PS: Dr. Fromm anticipates much of what Prof Chomsky is telling us now.
@edpatino595 жыл бұрын
"It doesn't matter if one uses God or doesn't; what matters is which experience one has"
@Soyarita446 жыл бұрын
Thank you Mr. fromm for introducing me to Meister Elkhart, Bishop Augustine of Hippo, Bishop Ambrose of Milan and finally to the Lord Jesus Christ. May you rest in peace. I love you from the bottom of my heart. Forever grateful to you.
@breeeegs5 жыл бұрын
Dr. Fromm
@Marxist24 жыл бұрын
Now more than ever, we must learn the art of loving since this capitalist society is crumbling before our eyes & we the people are letting the corporate government ruin us mentally and physically.
@arthurschopenhauer20266 жыл бұрын
A great and criminally neglected thinker. Let's spread the word!
@anaromero2318 Жыл бұрын
Totally agree!!!
@royseibel5114 жыл бұрын
Happiness is a function of expectation
@revampedby11 жыл бұрын
and 50 years on, it is getting worse and worse....
@santaclauseking11 жыл бұрын
I love Erich Fromm and I could just here the Marxist influence in his talk. Great man and very intelligent what he is saying does have resonance with us today.
@metanoiaepoch3807 жыл бұрын
sharing this
@MoonChildMedia6 жыл бұрын
worth a listen if to only witness mike wallace argue against socialism
@joefriendly4 жыл бұрын
Fromm mentions at 10:04 public having more concern with a Flu epidemic than nuclear war.
@luiscruz-tj6is6 жыл бұрын
I would like someone to put subtitles in English so that people who do not speak English very well can understand it more easily
@painisnagato11 жыл бұрын
See the wonderful new book, The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love's Prophet by Lawrence J. Friedman (2013) -- Friedman is also on the BookTV website talking about Fromm
@gregorydoriscard21503 жыл бұрын
He’s describing being white men in 1958. The flip side if you were black at that time and you live in the United States you were really fucked.
@126theman Жыл бұрын
12:07-12:13 would be such a great sample (for music production)!
@Alahadinc2 жыл бұрын
Perhaps I missed it, but, what is the Old Testament connection to socialism that Mr Fromm mentioned? Chapter and verse if possible.
@porkfrog27859 жыл бұрын
I don't understand why anyone would be surprised at 'relevance' - the human condition doesn't change with the passing time and technical advancement. We are still social creatures, we still suffer, we still fear, we still alienate to protect our selves, we still know we will die. Same needs, same issues. Same shit, different millennium. This dude is a STUD. Period.
@MagnumInnominandum2 жыл бұрын
I find it interesting that what He describes as being something "men" lack in the modern social machinery, has been a privilege in every generation and age. More are able to pursue the ideal he describes than in any other age, but most do not, instead immersing themselves in consumption activities as he rightly is concerned about. I would say that modern suffering comes from the absence of previous ages miseries. Suffering from a lack of control, influence, a say in the workings of the machinery, this again is a modern luxury, born of some detail of knowledge of how some others may live, powers they have, that modern man now knows. I do not believe that men in previous ages suffered mentally from this perceived lack of control of their circumstances as they had no concept of circumstances significantly different than their own. Now we have the comparison of historical and fictional figures that had powers, had control of situations, a rarified group in any age. Great masses of people now regularly have the resources and time to consume such information and can now have the luxury of suffering for what they imagine, they wish for and lack. A sort of toxic imagination, poisoning men and women with powers, positions and authority that masses of humanity simply cannot have, even at the price of their own and general ruin. Every man a Hercules, every woman a Circe. They never were and cannot be. We are collectively power mad, not with power we have but with the power we imagine we might have or further imagine that has been withheld or stolen from us.
@bloodswollengod12 жыл бұрын
"The Russians do it by force, we do it by persuasion."
@darylcumming71199 ай бұрын
An time capsule. The interview was done in the time of the Cold War. It is important to understand this in regards to the subject. Remember consume and die isn't You tube apart of the problem? Think about it ?
@Tsnore7 жыл бұрын
What would the Frommster think of the Frumpster in 2017?
@hyacinth13206 жыл бұрын
Listen to his speech on nationalism. It's eerily all there.
@breeeegs5 жыл бұрын
The Trumpster embodies every human flaw and societal disease.
@cyin15192 жыл бұрын
Great thinker
@energyeternal11 жыл бұрын
this seems more relevant now than ever.
@den154239 жыл бұрын
He is a genius
@Didm16 жыл бұрын
RESPECT
4 жыл бұрын
we need democracy in the work place..
@archibird3 жыл бұрын
10:00 “They have paid more attention to the danger of a flu epidemic than to the danger of the atomic bomb.”