“Man today, wearing the mask of a giant, has become a weak, helpless being
dependent on the machines he made, and hence on the leaders who guarantee the
proper functioning of the society that produces the machines, dependent on a
well-functioning business, frightened to death of losing all the props of being
"a man without rank and without title," of just being, of being challenged by
the question "Who am I?"
--Erich Fromm
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