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  • Indeed😔😔

  • Umm, while reading B.1.5, I see that it mentions a study on Freud's (as it says;) "most solidly grounded discoveries". How solidlu are these grounded? (I'm not trusting Freud very much.)

    In short, authoritarian civilisation reproduces itself with each generation because, through an intricate system of conditioning that permeates every aspect of society, it creates masses of people who support the status quo.

    Wilhelm Reich has given one of the most thorough analyses of the psychological processes involved in the reproduction of authoritarian civilisation. Reich based his analysis on four of Freud's most solidly grounded discoveries, namely, (1) that there exists an unconscious part of the mind which has a powerful though irrational influence on behaviour; (2) that even the small child develops a lively "genital" sexuality, i.e. a desire for sexual pleasure which has nothing to do with procreation; (3) that childhood sexuality along with the Oedipal conflicts that arise in parent-child relations under monogamy and patriarchy are usually repressed through fear of punishment or disapproval for sexual acts and thoughts; (4) that this blocking of the child's natural sexual activity and extinguishing it from memory does not weaken its force in the unconscious, but actually intensifies it and enables it to manifest itself in various pathological disturbances and anti-social drives; and (5) that, far from being of divine origin, human moral codes are derived from the educational measures used by the parents and parental surrogates in earliest childhood, the most effective of these being the ones opposed to childhood sexuality.

  • Gotta say, I managed to read like ~17 out of the 36 pdf pages of B.0-B.1, hopefully I might manage to catch up this time:)

  • ... As Colin Ward argues, people "do go from womb to tomb without realising their human potential, ...

    Lol, what a wild expression "from womb to tomb"

  • Aw oke cool:)

  • Awww

    Did you find that book through afaq? Cuz I think it mentions it in A.5

  • Thank you:))

  • Yooo it has soo many instances, glad to see that:)) Thank you!

  • Oh yay, thats nice to see!

  • Oh hey that looks really cool

  • Yoo letsgoo, you're in:)

  • Ok I might or might havent dusted some stuff the other day which I had neglected doing for months, but you gotta believe me it was important to clean them cuz umm I had to you know

  • I see I see, I'll try to see if next week we'll be able to read a shorter part so that people can catch up

  • Ayy, youre aboard!