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Our social pattern is such that the successful man is not supposed to be afraid or bored or lonely. He must find this world the best of all worlds; in order to have the best chance for promotion he must repress fear as well as doubt, depression, boredom, or hopelessness.
When hope has gone, life has ended, actually or ptentially.
Faith that others can change is the outcome of the experience that I can change.
Fortitude is the capacity to say "no" when the world wants to hear "yes".
As long as everybody else whistles, such people whistle too, and instead of feeling their hopelessness, they seem to participate in a kind of pop concert. They reduce their demands to what they can get and do not even dream of that which seems to be out of their reach. They are well-adjusted members of the herd and they never feel hopeless because nobody else seems to feel hopeless. They present the picture of a peculiar kind of resigned optimism which we see in so many members of contemporary Western society--the optimism usually being conscious and the resignation unconscious.
Termini chiave
Toward a humanized technology
Humanization of technology
Aspetti
Man as helpless cog in a completetly mechanized society
Putting technique in the service of man's well-being
Forces that support the status quo
Cambiare recuparando il meglio del nostro passato sociale
Alternative alla disumanizzazione
Human character structure, qualities and potentialities
Contemporary social, political e and economic problems
Interconnetions between psychology, sociology and politics
Mechanized society devoted to maximum material output and consumption directed by computers
Disappearance of individualism and privacy
Psychologial conditioning
Exploiting the latest communication techniques to manipulate emotions and contro reason
Losing control over our own "system"
Passiveness engendered by our exclusion from responsible decision making
Concentration on technique and material consumption
Loss of capacity for deep emotional experiences, joy and sadness
Do strong organizations require passive individuals?
Average citizens do not see the dangers of the megamachine
Disturbances in the system Man produce imbalances in the whole social system
The consumer's paradise does not deliver the happines it promised
Attraction to force, law and order
Polarization between conformists and creative people
Combining social change with personal change
Human nature vs. socioeconomic system
Hope's object should be a fuller life, not more consumption
Marcuse alienated intellectual unrealistic, naive, without hope
Hope is being ready for the new
Unconscious repression of fear, hopelessness, greed
Conscious and unconscious hope and hopelessness
Arts are better than words for describing human experience
Many people are passive in spite of their busyness
Many people need to be prompted, turned on, temped, seduced
People try to escape the anxiety that is aroused when they are confronted with themselves
La speranza รจ collegata coi bisogni umani
Faith is the awareness of pregnancy, the conviction of the not yet proven
Faih is the vision of the present in a state of pregnancy
Rational and irrational faith
Hope is the mood that accompanies faith
Fortitude is the capacity to say "no" when the world wants to hear "yes".
Hope and Faith transcend the status quo individually and socially
Resurrection is the transofrmation of this reality in the direction of greater aliveness
Loss of compassion and empathy
Destructiveness and violence as result of shattering of hope
Hate of life by persons with shattered hope
Avenging oneself for unlived life
Destructiveness is the alternative to hope
Most of us are not aware of what we feel
Examination of new alternatives and options, and concerted actions to bring about the realization of these new alternatives
Miscellanea
Libri precedenti che hanno influenzato quello presente
Escape from freedom
Man for himself
The sane society
The heart of Man
