The Wisdom Letter #054

The living being becomes a commodity on the “personality market.” The

“The destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it.”

— Erich Fromm , “The Fear of Freedom”

Our aim will be to show that the structure of modern society affects man in two ways simultaneously: he becomes more independent, self-reliant, and critical, and he becomes more isolated, alone, and afraid. The understanding of the whole problem of freedom depends on the very ability to see both sides of the process and not to lose track of one sid