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  • in reply to: A dumbed-down populace. #251515
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    Europe.

    in reply to: A dumbed-down populace. #251513
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    Point to a region.

    in reply to: A dumbed-down populace. #251512
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    Can you name a book?

    in reply to: A dumbed-down populace. #251509
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    And yet it’s true. Just watch any number of quiz shows. Or broach the subject of history, or geography.
    People are surprised when i argue with their conviction that early humans hunted 🦕 dinosaurs.

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    in reply to: Film #251505
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    Efforts of bosses to do away with the lunch break.

    in reply to: Underplayed Classics #251488
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    The Ballad of Tom Joad.

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #251442
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    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/03/29/ukraine-russia-war-news-latest-poland-power-plant/

    Can NATO forever hold back the war-mongering eastern European members on the Russian border?

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #251439
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    in reply to: Podcasts and propaganda #251438
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    The above was meant for Russian Tensions. Sorry.

    in reply to: Podcasts and propaganda #251435
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    Del.

    in reply to: Freud and Marxism. #251406
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    It’s probably the later edition available from Farrar, Strauss & Giroux (?)

    I don’t know if he is valid or not. I’m just saying what i know of his ideas, and know he described my own feelings so well with regard to the physical discomfort and woodenness/bloatedness that accompanies repression and which adds an extra burden to any work or socialisation.

    When living in Switzerland (from where i contacted and met comrade Fleischmann), i discovered Reich.
    I was sharing a flat with two German students whom i would describe as examples of what Reich calls healthily functioning individuals. The contrast with being a student in the U.K. could not be greater.
    There was no bullying among these German students and their friends. No machismo. No dirty talk. No porn. No put-downs. No spite. No nationalism. They had girlfriends who visited and often stayed. They were opposed to war. They had no craze for sports. No adulation for any celebrities. No interest in what someone wore, no mocking of another’s musical tastes. None of the obsessions, viciousness and malicious pettiness and rivalry which is the norm here.
    They were social in a true sense. They drank beer, but with meals, which we cooked and ate together. They kept everything clean.
    I was so glad i was there and had their support during my Kriegsangst while the first Iraq war was happening. There would have been no one to support me here.
    They did not go out at night to drink themselves into a stupor or fight in the streets.

    in reply to: Freud and Marxism. #251404
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    He believed two partners in a lifetime was healthy. But that’s his opinion.
    Certainly he considered lechery, dirty jokes, pornography and “counting conquests” to be as much signs of what he called the Emotional Plague as is angry celibacy and tyrannical marriage.

    in reply to: Freud and Marxism. #251400
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    And the issue of repression was probably more acute in the early part of the 20th century.

    Dennis Potter’s Pennies From Heaven focusses on this issue, very poignantly.

    in reply to: Freud and Marxism. #251395
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    From Listen, Little Man!

    https://images.app.goo.gl/muKUB5LceS5QshB9A

    https://images.app.goo.gl/P7iSZHT7GgvSmhps5

    https://images.app.goo.gl/ZiUgpziQBwv7yj2b7

    https://images.app.goo.gl/r9f1qz5u3JH4z7kR9

    in reply to: Freud and Marxism. #251394
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    Maybe those among fellow animals who are defeated in the quest for mates do develop problems, but i would guess they just try their luck again. Similar to a healthy human who is repulsed will shrug and move on. Whereas an unhealthy and repressed human will be unable to move on and may become a stalker or a suicide – both signs of neurosis/psychosis.

    As far as i know, other animals do not exploit their own species, or impose religion and repressive doctrines to suppress sex. They don’t have gender fixations or pornography, or need to sublimate and divert their natural drives. They don’t have physical hang-ups and body obsessions.
    But neither do primitive humans, to the extent we do. Severe neuroses appear to be part and parcel of class society, and most severe under modern industrial capitalism.

    https://images.app.goo.gl/GvS5Lqxuj1tefsWq5

    And Reich also pointed out that rabid promiscuity and an obsession with sex are also signs of neurosis.

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