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flyingcuttlefish ago

And here's another thing that relates to pizzagate, at least it relates to Jimmy Saville --

FROM - From Cybernetics to Littleton -- Techniques in Mind Control - 1/2 way down the page, (just before Erich Fromm headline) it says

"In his 1948 work on The Philosophy of Modern Music, Frankfurt School leader Theodor Adorno argued that the purpose of modern music is to literally drive the listener insane. He justified this by asserting that modern society was a hotbed of evil, authoritarianism, and potential fascism, and that, only by first destroying civilization, through the spread of all forms of cultural pessimism and perversity, could liberation occur. On the role of modern music, he wrote, "It is not that schizophrenia is directly expressed therein; but the music imprints upon itself an attitude similar to that of the mentally ill. The individual brings about his own disintegration.... He imagines the fulfillment of the promise through magic, but nonetheless within the realm of immediate actuality.... Its concern is to dominate schizophrenic traits through the aesthetic consciousness. In so doing, it would hope to vindicate insanity as true health.'' Necrophilia, he added, is the ultimate expression of ``true health'' in this sick society."

ghost_marauder ago

This paper explores Erich Fromm’s concept of necrophilia, as discussed in his 1963 pamphlet War Within Man. There Fromm contrasts the healthy “biophilic” character orientation, which is open to growth, change, and the future, with the unhealthy "necrophilic” character, which is characterized by sentimentality, dwelling upon the past, and an attempt to render the world static, fixed, predictable, and dead. While the former is future-oriented, like Fromm’s messianic hope, the latter attempts to flee the burdens of personal responsibility, freedom, and individuality through psychological regression into the
past. I conclude by exploring Fromm’s concepts of necrophilia and biophilia in light of his longtime correspondence with Thomas Merton.

http://www.fromm-gesellschaft.eu/images/pdf-Dateien/Braune_J_2011.pdf

Too easy to take out of context. But, the choice of words may underlay some type of freudian slip (he was a freudian), or as the simpsons puts it "Super Bliminal". Still not denying the guy was a shithead.