Archäologie XXIV - 25.05.1958
Auf den Seiten der University of Texas at Austin, und dort bei den Contents des Harry Ransom Center, finden sich die Mitschnitte der Interviews von Mike Wallace in Night Beat, einer 1956 bis 1958 ausgestrahlten Reihe von Gesprächen mit interessanten Köpfen der damaligen USA. (Die dazugehörigen Körper sind auch dabei, bleiben aber ein wenig unbeachtet).
61 Gespräche davon existieren im Original (16 mm) und stehen als Online-Video in voller Länge bereit. Die Mischung der Gäste ist...eklektisch. Eldon Edwards erklärt die "Position" des Ku Klux Klan und hat dabei ein fesches Zipfelmützchen auf. Kirk Douglas berichtet von den Dreharbeiten zu seinen Filmen. Mafia-Anwalt Edward Bennett Williams (der auch Senator McCarthy vertrat) erklärt das Rechtssystem des Landes. Meine persönlichen Favoriten sind Peter Ustinov und Erich Fromm, aber auch der zwölf Jahre alte Quizshow-Gewinner Leonard Ross, der sich über die Gefahren von Quizshows für Jugendliche äussert....
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Erich Fromm vor 50 Jahren u.a.:
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WALLACE: Well, that's the point. At the same time you make this apparently contradictory statement, because you also said, earlier this week: "If the United States goes on in the direction it is taking, it is in serious danger of destroying itself." Now how? In what ways?
FROMM: Well, Mr. Wallace, I would say, if I would put it generally, because in our enthusiasm to dominate nature and to produce more material good - goods - we have transformed means into ends. We've wanted to produce more in the 19th century and the 20th century in order to give man the possibility for more dignified human life; but actually what has happened is that production and consumption have become means-- have ceased to be means and have become ends, and we are production crazy and consumption crazy.
WALLACE: Well, I would like to get your views, with that as a background. I'd like to get your views as a psychoanalyst on specific instances - on what is happening to us as individuals. For instance, what would you say is happening to man, American man, in relationship to his work?
FROMM: I think his work is to a large extent, meaningless, because he is not related to it. He is increasingly part of a big machinery, social machinery, governed by a big bureaucracy......and I think American man unconsciously hates his work very often, because he feels trapped by it...imprisoned by it... because he feels that he is spending most of his energy for something which has no meaning in itself.
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Erstaunlich, was vor 50 Jahren im US-TV zu sehen und zu hören war!
The history of man so far is nothing to brag about, from the standpoint of our ideas--
61 Gespräche davon existieren im Original (16 mm) und stehen als Online-Video in voller Länge bereit. Die Mischung der Gäste ist...eklektisch. Eldon Edwards erklärt die "Position" des Ku Klux Klan und hat dabei ein fesches Zipfelmützchen auf. Kirk Douglas berichtet von den Dreharbeiten zu seinen Filmen. Mafia-Anwalt Edward Bennett Williams (der auch Senator McCarthy vertrat) erklärt das Rechtssystem des Landes. Meine persönlichen Favoriten sind Peter Ustinov und Erich Fromm, aber auch der zwölf Jahre alte Quizshow-Gewinner Leonard Ross, der sich über die Gefahren von Quizshows für Jugendliche äussert....
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Erich Fromm vor 50 Jahren u.a.:
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WALLACE: Well, that's the point. At the same time you make this apparently contradictory statement, because you also said, earlier this week: "If the United States goes on in the direction it is taking, it is in serious danger of destroying itself." Now how? In what ways?
FROMM: Well, Mr. Wallace, I would say, if I would put it generally, because in our enthusiasm to dominate nature and to produce more material good - goods - we have transformed means into ends. We've wanted to produce more in the 19th century and the 20th century in order to give man the possibility for more dignified human life; but actually what has happened is that production and consumption have become means-- have ceased to be means and have become ends, and we are production crazy and consumption crazy.
WALLACE: Well, I would like to get your views, with that as a background. I'd like to get your views as a psychoanalyst on specific instances - on what is happening to us as individuals. For instance, what would you say is happening to man, American man, in relationship to his work?
FROMM: I think his work is to a large extent, meaningless, because he is not related to it. He is increasingly part of a big machinery, social machinery, governed by a big bureaucracy......and I think American man unconsciously hates his work very often, because he feels trapped by it...imprisoned by it... because he feels that he is spending most of his energy for something which has no meaning in itself.
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Erstaunlich, was vor 50 Jahren im US-TV zu sehen und zu hören war!
The history of man so far is nothing to brag about, from the standpoint of our ideas--
gebattmer - 30. Apr, 17:27
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