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Citazioni Our social pattern is such that the successful man is not supposed to be afraid or bored or lonely. He must find this world the best of all worlds; in order to have the best chance for promotion he must repress fear as well as doubt, depression, boredom, or hopelessness.<hr /> When hope has gone, life has ended, actually or ptentially.<hr />Faith that others can change is the outcome of the experience that I can change.<hr />Fortitude is the capacity to say "no" when the world wants to hear "yes".<hr />As long as everybody else whistles, such people whistle too, and instead of feeling their hopelessness, they seem to participate in a kind of pop concert. They reduce their demands to what they can get and do not even dream of that which seems to be out of their reach. They are well-adjusted members of the herd and they never feel hopeless because nobody else seems to feel hopeless. They present the picture of a peculiar kind of resigned optimism which we see in so many members of contemporary Western society--the optimism usually being conscious and the resignation unconscious.<hr />

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The Revolution of Hope (libro di Erich Fromm)

Termini chiave
	Toward a humanized technology
	Technology
	magamachine
	human nature
	Hope
	human well-being
	humanization of technology
	idolatry of "Future"
	passive waiting
	character structure
	activeness vs. busyness
	Faith
	Fortitude
	fearlessness
	resurrection
	alternativism
	Shattering of hope
	hardening of the heart
Aspetti
	Man as helpless cog in a completetly mechanized society
	Putting technique in the service of man's well-being
	Forces that support the status quo
	cambiare recuparando il meglio del nostro passato sociale
	alternative alla disumanizzazione
	human character structure, qualities and potentialities
	contemporary social, political e and economic problems
	the system "Man"
	interconnetions between psychology, sociology and politics
	mechanized society devoted to maximum material output and consumption directed by computers
	disappearance of individualism and privacy
	psychologial conditioning
	exploiting the latest communication techniques to manipulate emotions and contro reason
	losing control over our own "system"
	passiveness engendered by our exclusion from responsible decision making
	concentration on technique and material consumption
	loss of capacity for deep emotional experiences, joy and sadness
	do strong organizations require passive individuals?
	average citizens do not see the dangers of the megamachine
	disturbances in the system Man produce imbalances in the whole social system
	the consumer's paradise does not deliver the happines it promised
	attraction to force, law and order
	polarization between conformists and creative people
	combining social change with personal change
	human nature vs. socioeconomic system
	hope's object should be a fuller life, not more consumption
	Marcuse alienated intellectual unrealistic, naive, without hope
	hope is being ready for the new
	unconscious repression of fear, hopelessness, greed
	conscious and unconscious hope and hopelessness
	arts are better than words for describing human experience
	many people are passive in spite of their busyness
	many people need to be prompted, turned on, temped, seduced
	people try to escape the anxiety that is aroused when they are confronted with themselves
	la speranza è collegata coi bisogni umani
	faith is the awareness of pregnancy, the conviction of the not yet proven
	faih is the vision of the present in a state of pregnancy
	rational and irrational faith
	faith in oneself
	Hope is the mood that accompanies faith
	Fortitude is the capacity to say "no" when the world wants to hear "yes".
	Hope and Faith transcend the status quo individually and socially
	resurrection is the transofrmation of this reality in the direction of greater aliveness
	Loss of compassion and empathy
	destructiveness and violence as result of shattering of hope
	hate of life by persons with shattered hope
	avenging oneself for unlived life
	destructiveness is the alternative to hope
	most of us are not aware of what we feel
	examination of new alternatives and options, and concerted actions to bring about the realization of these new alternatives
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	Pubblicato nel 1968
	libri precedenti che hanno influenzato quello presente	Escape from freedom Man for himself The sane society The heart of Man

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