"Is it possible to control man's mental evolution so as to make him proof against the psychoses of hate and destructiveness? Here I am thinking by no means only of the so-called uncultured masses. Experience proves that it is rather the so-called "Intelligentzia" that is most apt to yield to these disastrous collective suggestions, since the intellectual has no direct contact with life in the raw, but encounters it in its easiest, synthetic form upon the printed page."
by:
Albert Einstein
(1879-1955) Physicist and Professor, Nobel Prize 1921
Source:
Einstein letter to Sigund Freud, Caputh near Potsdam, 30 July, 1932
https://courier.unesco.org/en/articles/why-war-letter-albert-einstein-sigmund-freud
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Behold those that speak from ivory towers to the children of men, and do not walk among them. Social engineering DEI 101 destroys by way of secular humanism. 
 -- Ronw13, ID     
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    WOW !   I like it a lot.  the psychoses of hate and destructiveness is a driving mantra of socialists, neocons, the left & right and the occupying statist theocracy infesting this land. Patron slaves say give me enough to subsist on and it is all right if you hate and destroy individual sovereignty, inalienable rights and liberty at nature's law.
     -- Mike, Norwalk     
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    Ronw13, well said.
     -- Mike, Norwalk     
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    Well said!  I wonder how much Sigmund Freud understood it...
     -- E Archer, NYC     
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