Reply #7: To paraphrase

[Jcrowley]

Fromm stated: "Simply because you can convince 10 million people that their insane behavior is normal does not make that behavior any less pathological." That's where we are at present. When our very mundane and everyday acts cause extraordinary suffering and planetary destruction this "normalcy" is indeed insane.

"War and automation are our great perils. Our only remaining alternative is to radically leave the wrong path and set foot on the road to human self-realization. The first condition for this is to remove the threat of war that grips us all, and that paralyses faith and initiative. We must take responsibility for all people's lives and internationally develop that which all great countries have established internally up to now, namely a part of prosperity for everyone and a better distribution of the economical sources of prosperity. This should finally lead to the formation of an international economical cooperation, of global government and to full disarmament. We must maintain the industrial method, but decentralize labor and state so that they gain human proportions, and allow a certain minimum of centralization required by industrialization.
What we need in the field of economy is participation of all who work in a company to obtain their real and responsible cooperation."

- Erich Fromm

"The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots."
- Erich Fromm