{"id":41171,"date":"2024-12-06T07:49:51","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T13:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=41171"},"modified":"2024-12-06T07:55:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T13:55:08","slug":"eric-hoffer-aphorism-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=41171","title":{"rendered":"Eric Hoffer: Aphorism #1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In The Passionate State of Mind<\/strong>, Eric Hoffer describes people who irrationally commit to an ideology. The ideologies vary – religious, political, economic… it doesn’t matter. The members all fall victim to the same pathological psychological forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TIME Magazine<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

March 14, 1955<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE PASSIONATE STATE OF MIND <\/strong>(151 pp.)\u2014Eric Hoffer\u2014Harper ($2.50).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eric Hoffer is a pink-faced, hornyhanded San Francisco dock worker who pays his dues to Harry Bridges\u2019 longshoremen\u2019s union and preaches self-reliance more stalwartly than Emerson. <\/p>\n<\/div>

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He gets up at 4:45 in the morning and spends his days working on the piers of San Francisco\u2019s Embarcadero. Evenings he spends in his room in a shabby McAllister Street lodging-house, bent over a plank desk, writing.<\/p>\nTime Magazine<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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A Contemporary Interpretation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Although written almost three quarters of a century ago, it is just as true today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Passions usually have their roots in that which is blemished, crippled, incomplete and insecure within us. The passionate attitude is less a response to stimuli from without than an emanation of an inner dissatisfaction.<\/p>\nThe Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism #1, by Eric Hoffer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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In The Passionate State of Mind, Eric Hoffer describes people who irrationally commit to an ideology. The ideologies vary – religious, political, economic… it doesn’t matter. The members all fall victim to the same pathological psychological forces. A Contemporary Interpretation Although written almost three quarters of a century ago, it is just as true today. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38,113,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-club","category-collapse-of-democracy-civilization-etc","category-gravediggers-of-american-democracy"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41171"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41194,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41171\/revisions\/41194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}