Dr Neville Buch

Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane

Erich Fromm and 21st Century Escapism

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I would be interested to know if anyone is aware of a study of cultural-social psychology from the claim of Erich Fromm in 1960.
 
“…and yet nobody has any true aim. We are alienated with ourselves, we don’t feel much, and certainly we don’t feel intensely, all we are after is not to be different, and we are frighten to death to be just two feet away from the earth [? not clear], and yet we are deceiving ourselves about this reality by talking, all the time, in terms of our traditional heritage, of the Judeo-Christian tradition of humanistic philosophy, of reality, and what not.”

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Neville Buch (Pronounced Book) Ph.D. is a certified member of the Professional Historians Association (Queensland). Since 2010 he has operated a sole trade business in history consultancy. He was a Q ANZAC 100 Fellow 2014-2015 at the State Library of Queensland. Dr Buch was the PHA (Qld) e-Bulletin, the monthly state association’s electronic publication, and was a member of its Management Committee. He is the Managing Director of the Brisbane Southside History Network.
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Paul Budde
2 years ago

Partly true of course. However I would like to concentrate on what perhaps is the minority who would not feel part of that statement and urge them to raise their voices.
For your consideration:

https://paulbudde.com/blog/economic-social-and-political-issues-ict/what-comes-next-after-the-end-of-the-golden-post-wwii-era/

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