+Ricardo Gondim More prophet than analyst? Or is it that deeper analysis is far-sighted analysis, and far-sighted analysis is, in itself, prophecy?

Don't tell me. Greetings from ex USSR :)

well i don't see why he wouldn't be ... as he predicted - we are getting deeper into the hole here!

And in the days of the covid 19 even more relevant.

Mmmm, I'm not so sure. He was wrong about our sensitivity to consumerism vs. the threat of nuclear war - the 1960s, cold war, and cuban missile crisis tested that. The 1960s and the Vietnam war also were tantamount to the ability of people to experience counter culture and different ways of living... even within the borders of the U.S. All of this shortly after the bloodiest and most uncertain half-century ever recorded... I'm not sure I would have been open to the idea that socialism was the answer, especially after turning on the TV at night and hearing it on prime time on the one of three channels available. His analysis of socialism is also nice through rose colored glasses, but the reality is that socialism is, without any room for negotiation here PERIOD, the literal use of the state for the purpose of dissolving private property. There is no misapplication of the term here. You use the state to eventually result in a stateless utopia of freedom and community involvement and meaning. You know, Communism. I studied Marx for years in college and still have those texts in addition to Escape From Freedom and The Sane Society, among others. His criticism hits hard and is meaningful and still relevant. His solution is brutally, misguidedly, ignorantly (especially concerning the events to follow shortly after this very interview in the world stage), incorrect... to say the least.

Here planning to do an MA in philo thanks to him! Which country do you study in?

Rajiv Malhotra on the "U-Turn" Theory: "Westerners appropriate Indic ideas through a process called the U-Turn. In its basic form the U-Turn Theory states that a member of the dominant Western culture first whole-heartedly learns the Indic tradition. He or she, for a variety of reasons, then repackages it and projects the knowledge gained from India from within his/her own culture. The next thing you know is that he/she claims these ideas were always an integral part of Western culture. Some, but not all, also start demonizing the source Indic traditions using a lot of pretexts, such as calling them "world negating" or accusing them of "human rights" abuses." "As an example, Malhotra examined on how Jung appropriated much from Indic thought - including key ideas of collective unconscious, archetypes, and synchronicity. Jung met Sanchi and visited the Ramakrishna Order in Calcutta, from the ideas of whom he built the ideas of the Collective Unconscious, but did the classical U-Turn from Indic thought and later claimed these thoughts as his own original ones. In all, Malhotra has done 50+ case studies of such U-Turns, and each has its own story as to why and how it was done. U-Turns have played an important role in shaping Western ideas, literature and popular culture; yet they are typically ignored in discussions on the history of ideas. The U-Turn Theory also explains that many Indians internalize the Western adaptations of Indian culture and re-import them into India: For instance, Tantric healing is more fashionable as "energy healing" or as reiki; yoga's return to India's Westernized middle class owes a lot to the West's adoption of it; and Western research on cognitive science and neuroscience includes yogis who are mere "subjects." In short: He never gave credit to where his "groundbreaking" findings came from.. Even short: An intellectual thief.

Amanda Loughlin I love the unvarying confidence in your smile here. Love is love😗

Dr. Fromm's keen observational knowledge manifests itself in his level, pointed demeanor. His accurate take on the state of humanity, which rings more true even today, demands our attention and respect.

That encapsulates Wallace exactly...for the most part.

Samantha Termizi Marxist alienation spooky.

What makes you say that?

I know their Jews, but what makes you say they're reading from a script?

If you're serious, imma scream, if you're a troll, imma scream even harder. But I guess this means that "this is what a real interview looks like." Ha, Jews 1, you 0, because the burden of proof is on you pal.

***** Brain envy?

THIS was why tele vision was put into every houseHOLD. LOL PROGRAMMING MINDS FOR 2019

Wallace was not just pretty good but a great TV interviewer.

Aleksandar Duric Me too. He’s been a mentor to me for decades.

I have read "escape from freedom" numerous times

19:30

Manufactured consent/ Noam Chomsky

licenseless rider im telling you from now...ur gona read all his books.

Because hollow wood doesn’t advertise him

+Jeremy Reagan I thought the same about interviews and media today...

We do, they're just called podcasts now.

One cannot compare podcasts to interviews in my view.

Yeah, I agree! Podcasts are so dumb! They can't possibly be compared to TV. That's where it's at. And TV is not nearly as good as radio. Man, if only everybody got their interviews from radio, that's when people were really enlightened. But you know when people really had it great?... Newspapers. I don't think you can consider it factual or newsworthy unless you're getting your news printed on a piece of paper.

Actually, if you look into our early newspapers of the 18th or 19h centuries you can see how far media has degraded to useless verbiage. In previous eras you actually had largely raw opinion of the editors and authors. Now it is deliberately distorted for business interests only. Imagine our new President doing as Abraham Lincoln and actually meeting the lowest in our society and caring what they had to say about policy.

Jacinto Alvarez del Vas We have been socially mind controlled by this scripted PROGRAMMING

The big socio-economical machine keeps on chugging.

+Eric Swolgaard I noticed the same thing - I can't imagine this interview being on the television today. This kind of questions are not being asked nowadays, minus Russia Today maybe (sometimes)

+Eric Swolgaard The days before News became profit driven.

Pretty good. He wasn't asking the questions I would ask but he at least put Fromm on the spot and made him elaborate on the more significant tenets of his ideology.

Try Dave Rubin. He does real interviews.

VICE does, albeit on a smaller scale.

Same. I read it years ago and can say it was the most impactful book I’ve ever read.

The Sane Society is a must read.

In a "real democracy" we wouldn't even call or think of it as democracy... it would be blasphemous.

Claire Walkingsticks Its programming.

A lot of the great minds and genius writers of that time gave their solution in the form of Socialism, though I am totally against it, in fact that is what has caused all the problems in the world lately, least the majority of them. Least from what I see and believe. I am more of a Anarchist, a local government style of it.

@@DJxSGGxNeo Then a Communist. Anarchism is a Communist aim.

This quote does not refer to "making good products" but to the removal of exploitation of labour, of production, not of products.

The production side has been outsourced. America now employs most of the third world to meet the demands of its ravenous consumption of material goods.

What your life is like now, sir?

trekvogel2 Not so. THIS was social engineering. A psyops. Scripted to engineer minds subconsciously

Karl Marx is part of the reason why the society is heading in the wrong direction. The "capitalist" society is exactly what Marx was trying to _protect_. Capitalism is _usury_ and Marx was in clear support of usury and in fact ruefully tried to blame the Catholic Church for it. The crisis that is being experience is a crisis of consumption because money is being withheld from the populous and is being transferred to the FIRE sector -- with increasing velocity since the mid-1970's. The attack on production falls within the Marxist rubric of blaming societal problem on the "bourgeoise" (the entrepreneurial class) in order to shift the focus away from the usurers -- the very class that Marx was seeking to cover.

Deadbeat Pennyless Marx was, first and foremost, an *analyst* of capitalism. It's your interpretation that he was its *protector*. A very peculiar interpretation, I might add.

thofou76 First and foremost Marx was a descendant of Talmudic Rabbis and was mentored by the inventor of Communism and Zionism -- Moses Hess. Hess often subbed for Marx and was also known as the "Red Rabbi". Marx "analysis" of "Capitalism" was his greatest _red herring_ in order to confuse the productive sectors of the economy with the financial sectors. Prior to Marx the word "Capitalism" was used only to describe those who operated solely in the finance sectors.

Daniel Lackey i lose sleep over it. THIS interview is scripted mind control. A psyops. Social engineering for 2019

Dr. Fromm

Jordan peterson is doing a good job, finally

PS: Dr. Fromm anticipates much of what Prof Chomsky is telling us now.

Totally agree!!!