Two guys parked a pickup half in the bike lane, half on the sidewalk. I told them a wheelchair couldn't get past. They laughed.

It wasn't cruelty. They bought the truck. The responsibility came off the receipt.

New essay: Erich Fromm and freedom from freedom. #ErichFromm

You’re probably operating as an NPC (automaton) and falsely believe you’re thinking for yourself. Most people don’t value freedom because of fear of the unknown and needing certainty. #npc #rollomay #erichfromm

#ErichFromm

Saturday #bookhaul
#books #booksky #poetry #memoirs #hplovecraft #arthurconandoyle #erichfromm

Your #existential PSA for the day, courtesy of #ErichFromm:

The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die — although it is the tragic fate of most individuals to die before they are born.

 - #ErichFromm

Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

- #ErichFromm, 'Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics'

it tends to turn him into an automaton who pays for his human failure with increasing mental sickness, and with despair hidden under a frantic drive for work and so-called pleasure."

- #ErichFromm, 'In the Name of Life'

"Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends to undermine the inner security, happiness, reason and the capacity for love in the individual;

- #ErichFromm, 'In the Name of Life'

gives rise to a vast array of emotions—with only a single word; for their creativity in matters of the heart was limited to that one word alone."
- #ErichFromm, The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths
#Love #Myth #Dreams #Books #Language