Everybody knows Marx’s famous term “the means of production.” People who are afraid of communism use it as a bugbear as in “communists are going to nationalize the means of production and then you won’t be able to own your own home.” That’s not true, of course. The means of production are not personal property
Get up, shower, eat, work, scroll the corporate feeds, read the corporate news, eat, sleep, wash, repeat. The routines and rituals of industrial religion.
Erich Fromm’s analysis of heteronomous force in To Have or to Be? anticipates the Lightning Path’s Eupsychian Theory by decades. Framing his insights through Toxic Socialization and the Seven Essential Needs, we see how the Regime of Accumulation suppresses our drives to Align and Connect, producing the pathology that sustains a broken world. The Suppression
One of the Seven Essential Needs outlined in the Theory of Essential Needs (Sosteric, 2016) is alignment. As outlined in my article “Eupsychian Theory I,” the seven essential needs are just that, essential. They are the physiological, environmental, cognitive, emotional, psychological, alignment, and connection needs that are fundamental requirements of human health and full development
