Marx taught that luxury is as much a vice as poverty and that our goal should be to be much, not to have much. (I refer here to the real Marx, the radical humanist, not to the vulgar forgery presented by Soviet communism.) Erich Fromm, “To have or to be” #erich-fromm #fromm #marx #philosophy #psychology #socialism #communism #bourgeois #future #values #quote #ussr
amos oz was saying that Hebrews were stunned with the force they posses now, and never had before. this reminds about the compensation theory that those from Russia or Arab countries who recently became wealthy or well-to-do, often compensate former asperity and lack of opportunities.
by transferring the compensation theory to the internet, I think, that many of us today are stunned with the opportunity that many acquaintances and even strangers may read what they transmit, and even like it. Which can be roughly estimated as the likes count.
it is of course a natural need for humans to be accepted in the community, and to feel a bit of self importance. probably, those, who were devoid of those, are more obsessed with showing off in the “internets”, as Bush put it.
thus, like the Hebrews are compulsive to use force, like New Russians must use golden lavatories, we write online, and count what god sent us today likes, instead of aiming for deeper interpersonal relationships.
which has it’s opposite side: consuming this astonishing amount of information simply is not easy/possible, thus we learn to swallow it fast, without chewing, in vain hope of not missing out.
that’s the vicious circle of the beginning of the internet age, which is hard to escape.
Now I’ve been written this, I’ve remembered words of my friend about the Mcluhan’s book.
#compensation_theory #compensation #theory #psychology #humans #internet
If other people do not understand our behavior—so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being “asocial” or “irrational” in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them.
How many lives have been ruined by this need to “explain,” which usually implies that the explanation be “understood,” i.e. approved. Let your deeds be judged, and from your deeds, your real intentions, but know that a free person owes an explanation only to himself—to his reason and his conscience—and to the few who may have a justified claim for explanation.
Erich Fromm, The art of being
#erich_fromm #psychology #quote #explanation #freedom
to merry. relationship guide from acquaintance to civil registry. it’s time to act!
#bookstore #psychology (yes it was in psychology department) #book #relationships #guide #love #manual #marriage
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein relatively unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than is accurate. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to accurately evaluate their own ability level. Conversely, highly skilled individuals may underestimate their relative competence, erroneously assuming that tasks that are easy for them are also easy for others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
#dunning-kruger_effect #psychology #cognitive #bias #knowledge #expertise
why rejection is painful to such extent, much more, than other basic psychological injuries, why loneliness makes us incapable of intimacy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBqoA1V6Fgg
#failure #rejection #guilt #loneliness #brooding #rumination #loss #trauma #self-esteem #psychology #injury #emotions #first-aid #pain #speech #talk #guy-winch #aid
Election politics is very much a type of marketing, and politicians are starting to use personalized marketing’s capability to discriminate as a way to track voting patterns and better “sell” a candidate or policy position.
Psychological manipulation—based both on personal information and control of the underlying systems—will get better and better. Even worse, it will become so good that we won’t know we’re being manipulated.
#elections #politics #psychology #surveillance #manipulation #facebook #google #tilt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkpUyB2xgTM
#doll #test #psychology #kids #children #color
Marx taught that luxury is as much a vice as poverty and that our goal should be to be much, not to have much. (I refer here to the real Marx, the radical humanist, not to the vulgar forgery presented by Soviet communism.)
Erich Fromm, “To have or to be”
#erich-fromm #fromm #marx #philosophy #psychology #socialism #communism #bourgeois #future #values #quote #ussr #cccp #ссср #humanism #խսհմ #սովետ #ֆրոմ #մարքս #էրիխ֊ֆրոմ #փիլիսոփայություն #հոգեբանություն #սոցիալիզմ #կոմունիզմ #ապագա #արժեքներ
Socialism and communism quickly changed from a movement whose aim was a new society and a new man into one whose ideal was a bourgeois life for all, the universalized bourgeois as the men and women of the future.
Erich Fromm, “To have or to be”
#erich-fromm #fromm #philosophy #psychology #socialism #communism #bourgeois #future #values #quote
enjoy`
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-4flnuxNV4 #choice #psychology #ted #bernulli #decision #odd #gain #value #time #space
if we can #rationalize to more degree we’ll be able to #cheat more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBmJay_qdNc
#մարդիկ #psychology
I just had an idea, may be lame, - as #therapists deal with logical mistakes in the minds of people, deal with irrational thoughts, may be it would be good to include #logic and/or #discrete #math in their university courses. #psychology
#Մեջբերում #հոգեբան ի ու 16-ամյա աղջկա #զրույց ից՝ #թերպիա յի ժամանակ։
#Therapist: – Have you ever read the #bible?
Girl: – Isn’t that like illegal for you to ask me that?
Therapist: – Not really. It’s really just a subject like any other. You can choose to #talk about it or not. Anyway, in the new #testament #God is always portrayed as being #good and #wickedness and #evil is a #human thing, a human problem.Actually, it’s one of the things that’s helped christianity to spread very quickly. Can you… Can you think why?
Girl: – Because #people like to feel shitty about themselves?
Therapist: - That’s it. Exactly. We prefer to# live in a world where God is #good and man is #bad rather than a world where God is bad. So an evil #authority, an unfair# government, neglectful #parents– That’s a pretty scary #concept. Makes your whole #life seem kind of scary and meaningless. It is one of the reasons why children will blame themselves before their parents.
#therapy #psychology #religion #bible #obey #in-treatment
http://chvhatvogh.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/կրոնի-ու-մեր-մասին/
In times of uncertainty, we see a dramatic polarization, with the #rich more focused on holding onto and attaining #wealth and the #poor spending more time with #friends and loved ones,” said Paul Piff, a post-doctoral scholar in #psychology at UC Berkeley and lead author of the paper published online this month in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120831104201.htm
