After I had written last month’s monograph on ‘Revealing Humanity’s Place in the Cosmos’, I realized that I had omitted to mention how Erich Fromm’s To Have or to Be? has had a profound influence on my own studies of the psychodynamics of society.
For Fromm concluded his magnum opus by saying that a new synthesis of spirituality and rational thought is the only alternative to chaos, free from technocratic fascism. And this could happen when we live predominantly in the being mode of existence, based on the productive use of our human powers, in contrast to the having mode, based on ownership and possessiveness.
So, as a postscript and introduction, I have written a two-page article titled ‘The Art and Science of Humanity’.