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  1. Erich Fromm _ To Have or To Be?

    the newspapers, the magazines, television, and radio produce a commodity: news, from the raw material of events. Only news is salable, and the news media determine which events are news, which are not.
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  2. Erich Fromm _ To Have or To Be?

    One of the most obvious explanations is that the leaders undertake many actions that make it possible for them to pretend they are doing something effective to avoid a catastrophe: endless conferences, resolutions, disarmament talks, all give the impression that the problems are recognized and something is being done to resolve them.
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  3. Erich Fromm _ To Have or To Be?

    looking for the next thing to do or the newest gadget to use is only a means of protecting oneself from being close to oneself or to another person.
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  4. Erich Fromm _ To Have or To Be?

    Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and give the reassurance, albeit false, that the whole mixture is real and true.
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