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POPSA Brief History Of Political Correctness established in 1923 by Felix Weil, Marxist son of a millionaire German trader, in association with Frankfurt University. The work of the Institute, which came to be called the Frankfurt School, was to translate Marxism from economic into cultural terms. Political Correctness as it is known today was created by that Institute. Essentially the task had been completed by the end of the 1930s. Other key members of the Frankfurt School were Theodore Adorno, Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse. Fromm and Marcuse introduced the central sexual element into Political Correctness. The call for sexual liberation, which will supposedly lead to human sensual happiness, figures prominently in the work of the Institute. In a 1936 essay, ‘Egoism and the Movement for Emancipation’, Frankfurt School director Max Horkeimer discussed the “hostility to personal gratification inherent in bourgeois culture.” He referred favourably to the Marquis de Sade for his “protest…
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POPSCongo, Bongo and Dead Souls Never fails to sell newspapers, the propensity of the shadow to project itself onto suitable objects of externalisation. You don't need to be a Jungian to appreciate the conceptual difference between psychological pathology as a cause for the erotic satisfaction of souls thin as words on paper in the terminal death rattle of slaughter and hatred as the final attempt to feel, and the nature of war as lived through fully human experience. It's the former Fromm addresses in The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, the latter by those involved.
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POPScreativity1 •Alan Alda •Erich Fromm •Henry David Thoreau •Martin Luther King Jr. •Rita Mae brown
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POPSHas American Society Gone Insane? Diabetes, obesity, heart disease, physical weakness, osteoporosis, asthma, bodily misalignment and chronic pain... I'm fully in favor of adding depression and mental illness to the list of ways our society makes us unhealthy. The very nature of how we live is unhealthy.
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POPSThe Tyranny of Niceness Related to passive-aggression as a cultural descriptor rather than an individual pathology. Fear of authority, chronic anger, bitterness, and the masochistic self-disempowerment of submission (see Fromm).
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POPSThe Sadomasochism of Power and Politics:Fromm Sadism and masochism as broad concepts (not excluding control of SM impulses by individuals) are key to Erich Fromm's psychoanalytical interpretation of how personality, ideology and politics are interwined.
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POPSDepressed? Blame consumerism. Really excellent argument linking consumerism in an advanced society to the rise in depression. Excerpted from "Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy" (Chelsea Green, 2007) by Bruce E. Levine (via Mark Silver, Heart of Business)
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POPSProjecting Pain on to Others See also Fromm's 'The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness' Individuals with a deep hatred of themselves will project their loathing onto 'suitable targets of destruction'
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