The
Netherlands, May 2004
During a recent TV program someone was asked to name the one book
which did change his way of thinking for the most. For myself I
didn't had to think long about an answer. When I was young my dads
bookcase was a source of inspiration. My heroin was one of his
favorites Lou Salomé. Her writings and friendship with men like
Nietzsche, Rilke and Freud opened my heart and mind. Yet a tiny
booklet was the real eye-opener. Listen,
little man! of the psyciather Wilhelm Reich. The
writer of 'The mass Psychology of Fascism'. The
pamphlet was written in 1956, but now a days it's still hot
stuff. I would say, even more so now then ever before.
In
Dutch the book isn't available anymore and that's a real pity.
Being aware of the danger of the contemporary situation the book
inspired me to create this gallery. However it's a topic for the
new site to come dolceVitas-podium I decided to put it already
on-line on dolceVitas. This way you are given an indication of
what's to come.
On the
internet I found the last words
excerpted from the preface to "Listen, Little Man!
'...It
is high time for the living to get tough, for toughness is
indispensible in the struggle to safeguard and develop the
life-force; this will not detract from their goodness, as long as
they stand courageously by the truth. There is ground for hope in
the fact that among millions of decent, hard-working people there
are only a few plague-ridden individuals, who do untold harm by
appealing to the dark, dangerous drives of the armored average man
and mobilizing him for political murder. There is but one antidote
to the average man's predisposition to plague: his own feeling for
true life. The life-force does not seek power but demands only to
play its full and acknowledged part in human affairs. It manifests
itself through love, work, and knowledge.
Anyone who wants to safeguard the life-force from the emotional
plague must learn to make at least as much use of the right of
free speech that we enjoy in America for good ends as the
emotional plague does for evil ones. Granted equal opportunity for
expression, rationality is bound to win out in the end. That is
our great hope...'
Wilhelm Reich, 1946
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