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“The clearest sign of this is the revengeful and reproachful manner in which many people behave, regardless of whether they live in a capitalist or communist country. For revenge and reproach – not freedom Ash have become their goals in life; consequently, the increasingly intensify there dependency and fall prey to the illusion the power is the panacea for all problems.”
― The Insanity of Normality: Toward Understanding Human Destructiveness
― The Insanity of Normality: Toward Understanding Human Destructiveness
“Conformist thinking is self-defeating because it knows only the categories of punishment and submission, but not the potential that lies in understanding. The image of the enemy must be maintained at all costs; for this reason, the "enemy" must never be humanized. Both the revolutionary and the conformist depend on the image of the enemy; they need it in order to rationalize their violence to maintain their positions.”
― The Insanity of Normality: Toward Understanding Human Destructiveness
― The Insanity of Normality: Toward Understanding Human Destructiveness
“Our civilization with its demand for obedience is at the root of self-hatred; here lies the source of our malaise and unhappiness. Whenever we avoid facing truth for the sake of those ideologies that sustain our power-based culture, unhappiness will be a constant feature in our lives, no matter what the economic or political character of a given society may be.”
― The Insanity of Normality: Toward Understanding Human Destructiveness
― The Insanity of Normality: Toward Understanding Human Destructiveness
“All representatives of the ideology of power, which is based on a false conception of the self, fear people who are inner-directed and have contempt for them because it is a fear that cannot be acknowledged. It makes no difference if one is on the right or left politically. What we are faced with on all sides is an obsession with power, rather than an openness to reality with all its rich and vital possibilities.”
― The Insanity of Normality: Toward Understanding Human Destructiveness
― The Insanity of Normality: Toward Understanding Human Destructiveness
“It is primarily the inability to tolerate feelings that brings about disassociation between thought and feeling. Although this is considered a characteristic of schizophrenic behavior, it is true of us “normal“ people and not of schizophrenics. In the latters’ case, disassociation is an expression of the refusal to produce imposed in the hypocritical feelings. For it is not that schizophrenics are incapable of tolerating real feelings of pain, sorrow, despair, or joy; they simply reject living with the distortions of these feelings. But when “normal“ men and women cannot tolerate helplessness, for instance, they need to seek relief in a “reality“ that is contemptuous of such an experience and that denies its inherent potentiality as a source of genuine strength.”
― The Insanity of Normality: Toward Understanding Human Destructiveness
― The Insanity of Normality: Toward Understanding Human Destructiveness
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