Just finished 'Listen, Little Man' the third time around. If you haven't picked up this book yet, I would highly suggest it! Wilhelm Reich gives you this jolt of electricity, that recharges your sense of self and moral responsibility.
[From the book, “Listen Little Man” written by Wilhelm Reich with illustrations by William Steig. Courtesy of Wilhelm Reich Infant Trust.]
Examining these movements from the Orgonomic point of view, or Reichian point of view, raises our concerns and worries. If the masses of people attribute their misery and unhappiness to one person—in this case Hosni Mubarak—and shout “this man has to go!” it implies that theses people might just as well put their fate in the hands of another person, and that of the fate of their happiness, prosperity and relief. From our point of view, in such a structured pursuit of happiness, they are setting themselves up for a major disappointment which history can attest. In Listen Little Man, Wilhelm Reich writes:
“For 25 years I have been speaking and writing in defense of your right to happiness in this world, condemning your inability to take what is your due, to secure what you won in bloody battles on the barricades of Paris and Vienna, in the American Civil War, in the Russian Revolution. Your Paris ended with Petain and Laval, your Vienna with Hitler, your Russian with Stalin, and your American may well end in the rule of the Ku Klux Klan! You’ve been more successful in winning your freedom than in securing it for yourself and others. This I knew long ago. What I did not understand was why time and again, after fighting your way out of a swamp, you sank into a worse one. Then groping and cautiously looking about me, I gradually found out what has enslaved you: Your Slave Driver is You Yourself. No one is to blame for your slavery but you yourself. No one else, I say!”
