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Related: About this forumPsychologist and Philosopher Erich Fromm on pathologies

The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
Erich Fromm
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Psychologist and Philosopher Erich Fromm on pathologies (Original Post)
BootinUp
Oct 2025
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Jim__
(15,134 posts)1. From "The Sane Society."
Wikiquotes has some other interesting quotes from that book here. For instance,
A relatively primitive village in which there are still real feasts, common artistic shared expressions, and no literacy at allis more advanced culturally and more healthy mentally than our educated, newspaper-reading radio-listening culture.
BootinUp
(51,035 posts)2. Thanks. Will take a look at those.
Martin Eden
(15,445 posts)3. That's MAGA to a T
As in Trumpism.
