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Understanding Racism and Hate - Understanding Racists - The case of the "successful" Racists. - Erich Fromm and his Theories
I am at the beginning of a Long Journey, a Long Voyage, or Pilgrimage.
Trying to understand Racism and Racists.
The first observation is that usually Racists are boxes filled with "Inferiority Complexes", with many Inadequacies. This is a Gold Mine, but doesn't explain everything .... This Idea doesn't explain all the Psychological Makeup of the Racist.
A good friend wrote this :
"There are a plethora of successful intellectual people who are strongly racist and quite hateful. When people live in a bubble in this life, living and working with people who look like themselves, it is easier for their racial views to replicate their lifestyle. I absolutely believe that people also tend to me more racist who are narcissists and omnipotent personality types who demand that “Others” live as they do and cannot accept individuality much less race differences."
Yes, friend, your paragraph makes me think a lot..... I am only at the beginning of a Journey of Research into the mind of Hate ....
I can only explain a small part of the story .....
Those people that are "successful", that are TV Anchors in Fox News, or that are invited guests in those programs of Fox News are more difficult to explain ...
But I suspect that there is always a story of "revenge" against life or something lost in childhood .... And this is a "success" that I do not envy ....
Our concept of "Success" based in money and fame may be a perversion. This needs more research .... I think that one of the Great Psychoanalists Erich Fromm delved a lot on this matter of success ....
Erich Fromm was the only child of Orthodox Jewish parents, born in 1900
From Wikipedia :
Fromm believed that freedom was an aspect of human nature that we either embrace or escape. He observed that embracing our freedom of will was healthy, whereas escaping freedom through the use of escape mechanisms was the root of psychological conflicts. Three main escape mechanisms that Fromm outlined are automaton conformity, authoritarianism, and destructiveness.
Automaton conformity is changing one's ideal self to what is perceived as the preferred type of personality of society, losing one's true self. The use of automaton conformity displaces the burden of choice from the self to society. Authoritarianism is allowing oneself to be controlled by another. This removes the freedom of choice almost entirely by submitting that freedom to someone else. Lastly, destructiveness is any process which attempts to eliminate others or the world as a whole to escape freedom. Fromm said that "the destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it" (1941).
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Erich Fromm in Wikipedia
Vicente Duque
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Understanding Racism and Hate - Understanding Racists - The case of the "successful" Racists. - Erich Fromm and his Theories
I am at the beginning of a Long Journey, a Long Voyage, or Pilgrimage.
Trying to understand Racism and Racists.
The first observation is that usually Racists are boxes filled with "Inferiority Complexes", with many Inadequacies. This is a Gold Mine, but doesn't explain everything .... This Idea doesn't explain all the Psychological Makeup of the Racist.
A good friend wrote this :
"There are a plethora of successful intellectual people who are strongly racist and quite hateful. When people live in a bubble in this life, living and working with people who look like themselves, it is easier for their racial views to replicate their lifestyle. I absolutely believe that people also tend to me more racist who are narcissists and omnipotent personality types who demand that “Others” live as they do and cannot accept individuality much less race differences."
Yes, friend, your paragraph makes me think a lot..... I am only at the beginning of a Journey of Research into the mind of Hate ....
I can only explain a small part of the story .....
Those people that are "successful", that are TV Anchors in Fox News, or that are invited guests in those programs of Fox News are more difficult to explain ...
But I suspect that there is always a story of "revenge" against life or something lost in childhood .... And this is a "success" that I do not envy ....
Our concept of "Success" based in money and fame may be a perversion. This needs more research .... I think that one of the Great Psychoanalists Erich Fromm delved a lot on this matter of success ....
Erich Fromm was the only child of Orthodox Jewish parents, born in 1900
From Wikipedia :
Fromm believed that freedom was an aspect of human nature that we either embrace or escape. He observed that embracing our freedom of will was healthy, whereas escaping freedom through the use of escape mechanisms was the root of psychological conflicts. Three main escape mechanisms that Fromm outlined are automaton conformity, authoritarianism, and destructiveness.
Automaton conformity is changing one's ideal self to what is perceived as the preferred type of personality of society, losing one's true self. The use of automaton conformity displaces the burden of choice from the self to society. Authoritarianism is allowing oneself to be controlled by another. This removes the freedom of choice almost entirely by submitting that freedom to someone else. Lastly, destructiveness is any process which attempts to eliminate others or the world as a whole to escape freedom. Fromm said that "the destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it" (1941).
Souce of this paragraph :
Erich Fromm in Wikipedia
Vicente Duque
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