Date: 21 Feb 00 17:35:29 CST
From: Michael Chisari <mchisari-AT-usa.net>
Subject: Re: Freud


> Hakuna Matata Marley <bixmarley-AT-hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
> Ive just finished reading Freud's Civilization And Its Discontents 
> (Unbehagen In Der Kultur). He is quite emphatic on the point that he 
> does not believe in the anarchist prerrogative that all men are born 
> good, and it is society which perverts them. I myself am not really 
> sure 'bout this -men being originally good- and stuff, but I dont know 
> much about philosophy and how this point is supported by anarchist 
> "thinkers". Hope someone could help me figure out how men should deal 
> with agressive instincts in an anrchistic society.

   Well, I don't profess to be much of an expert on Freud, but according
to the Psych majors that I've talked with, Freudian Psych tends to not
be highly regarded.  But in any case...

   I, personally, don't believe that people are inherently good.  
However, I don't think that people are inherently evil, either.  People
are inherently neutral, and are shaped quite heavily by their 
surroundings.  We tend to think that people are inherently evil, 
because we live in an authoritarian capitalist society that makes them
that way.

   I admit that I have nothing to back up these beliefs, save for 
my own personal experience.

--
Michael Chisari
mchisari-AT-usa.net

gcc -o -Wall society.cc

society.cc: Classes 'government' and 'capitalism' not found!

society.cc: Derived classes, 'greed', 'oppression', 
society.cc: 'hierarchy', and 'violence' will no longer 
society.cc: function.

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