Erich Fromm Interview Excerpt 3

Erich Fromm discusses different things, including the Having and being modes of orientation.

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[OurFadedGarden]

I fought like hell not to take the red pill. I'm sorry for it now.

[Murphydog85]

@Ah4b Man likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys - Dostoevsky

[Ah4b]

Fromm makes a point here but he also justifies vage feelings and even prejudice. Everyone meets people in his life who he may not like in the first moment and is later indeed disappointed by. Then you'd say: 'I knew it.'

But how often do we forget about our first thoughts when we are not disappointed and get used to unusual aspects of someones personality? We never count those occasions. We only count the times we are disappointed.

[jruizdemena]

1ª part of this interview 75911 wiews, 2ª 14850, 3ª 8115...i dont understand why they cannot find it interesting

[kurtilein3]

the idea of a council he talks about, chosing a few of the most respected people to form a group to act as advisors which then adopt new members, now exists. not on a national level but on a global level. its the global elders. and it really would be great if people would start listening to them ;)

some of the members are really illustrous, like jimmy carter and nelson mandela and kofi annan and desmond tutu.

[rlvowell]

@subscriber77 hitler lost 2 elections, fyi. i.e, he wasn't elected by any majority.

[rollingklouds]

Mind reflects many a thoughts, many right and wrongs, yes and 'no's.

If Freud had those 'ideas', and he had to 'repress' them, well, others don't. Others don't have to 'repress' them. They simply are too tasteless to be thought about, and then 'repressed'.

Repression is not needed when there is no emergence at all, or even if there is, it is too far to reach out to 'repress.'

[subscriber77]

Hitler had an aura too. I don't think the aura he projected was fraudulent. And yet he was elected, i.e., he seems to have either fooled the majority or the majority really shared his views.

It's a shame Fromm got off the topic of electing a Supreme Cultural Council, which he proposed to advise people in power. An interesting idea.