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20 THE KNOWLEDGE
“We live in an economic system in which a
particularly good crop is often an
economic disaster, and we restrict some of
our agricultural productivity in order to
stabilise the market, although there are
millions of people who do not have the very
things we restrict, and who need them
badly. We have a literacy rate above 90 per
cent of the population. We have radio,
television, movies, a newspaper a day for
everybody. But instead of giving us the best
of past and present literature and music,
these media of communication,
supplemented by advertising, fill the minds
of men with the cheapest trash, lacking in
any sense of reality, with sadistic fantasies
which a halfway cultured person would be
embarrassed to entertain even once in a
while. We have reduced the average
working hours to about half what they were
one hundred years ago. We today have
more free time available than our
forefathers dared to dream of. But what
has happened ? We do not know how to use
the newly gained free time; we try to kill
the time we have saved, and are glad when
another day is over.”
– Erich Fromm, “The Sane Society” 1955.
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