If The Psychic Energies Of The Average

You Beg For Happiness In Life, But Security Is More Important To You, Even If It Costs You Your Spine Or Your Life. Your Life Will Be Good And Secure When Aliveness Will Mean More To You Than Security; Love More Than Money; Your Freedom More Than Party Line Or Public Opinion; When Your Thinking Will Be In Harmony With Your Feelings; When The Teachers Of Your Children Will Be Better Paid Than The Politicians; When You Will Have More Respect For The Love Between Man And Woman Than For A Marriage License.

The Question Of How And Why The Encrustations And Rigidifications Of Human Emotional Life Are Brought About Led Directly Into The Realm Of Vegetative Life.

The Suppression Of Natural Sexual Gratification Leads To Various Kinds Of Substitute Gratifications. Natural Aggression, For Example, Becomes Brutal Sadism Which Then Is An Essential Mass-psychological Factor In Imperialistic Wars.

On All Sides, Life Is Surrounded By Hostility. This Puts Us Under An Obligation.

You Don't Believe That Your Friend Could Ever Do Anything Great. You Despise Yourself In Secret, Even – No, Especially – When You Stand On Your Dignity; And Since You Despise Yourself, You Are Unable To Respect Your Friend. You Can't Bring Yourself To Believe That Anyone You Have Sat At Table With, Or Shared A House With, Is Capable Of Great Achievement. That Is Why All Great Men Have Been Solitary. It Is Hard To Think In Your Company, Little Man. One Can Only Think 'about' You, Or 'for Your Benefit', Not 'with' You, For You Stifle All Big, Generous Ideas.