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A review by kokarina
On Disobedience: Why Freedom Means Saying No to Power by Erich Fromm
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.25
Some reviewers are probably not wrong when they say that this book wouldn't convince many who don't already agree. Although, I don't believe that the arguments are bad or invalid, but simply only work if you agree with the premise, which some people sadly don't.
Nonetheless, what do you want me to say, I just had a real good time reading these essays.
"(...) the dialectical relationship between obedience and disobedience. Whenever the principles which are obeyed and those which are disobeyed are irreconcilable, an act of obedience to one principle is necessarily an act of disobedience to its counterpart and vice versa"
and
"giant corporations which control the economic, and to a large degree the political, (..) constitute the very opposite of a democratic process; they represent power without control by those submitted to it."
and
"the very fact that people tolerate the threat of an atomic war hovering over all mankind, shows that modern man has come to a point where his sanity must be questioned"
Like SLAY Erich!!!
Nonetheless, what do you want me to say, I just had a real good time reading these essays.
"(...) the dialectical relationship between obedience and disobedience. Whenever the principles which are obeyed and those which are disobeyed are irreconcilable, an act of obedience to one principle is necessarily an act of disobedience to its counterpart and vice versa"
and
"giant corporations which control the economic, and to a large degree the political, (..) constitute the very opposite of a democratic process; they represent power without control by those submitted to it."
and
"the very fact that people tolerate the threat of an atomic war hovering over all mankind, shows that modern man has come to a point where his sanity must be questioned"
Like SLAY Erich!!!