Listen, Little Man by Wilhelm Reich

Author:Wilhelm Reich [Reich, Wilhelm]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Psychologie
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Throw out your politicians and diplomats

Stop the mouth of the malignant old maid; expose her publicly or send her to a reform school instead of young people who are longing for love. Don’t try to outdo your exploiter in exploitation if you have a chance to become a boss. Throw away your swallowtails and top hat, and stop applying for a license to embrace your woman. Join forces with your kind in all countries; they are like you, for better or worse. Let your child grow up as nature (or ‘God’) intended. Don’t try to improve on nature. Learn to understand it and protect it. Go to the library instead of the prize fight, go to foreign countries rather than to Coney Island. And first and foremost, think straight, trust the quiet inner voice that tells you what to do. You hold your life in your hands, don’t entrust it to anyone else, least of all to your chosen leaders. be yourself! Any number of great men have told you that.”

“Would you listen to the reactionary petit-bourgeois individualist! Doesn’t he know that history has its irreversible course and its dustbin, which is where he’ll end up! ‘Know yourself,’ he says. Bourgeois rubbish! The revolutionary proletariat of all countries—led by its beloved leader, the father of all peoples, all Russians, Prussians and Pan-Slavs—will liberate the people! Down with all individualists and anarchists!”

Long live the fathers of all peoples and Slavs! Hurrah . . . hurrah! Listen to me, little man, I see trouble in store for you.

You’re in the process of taking over; you know it and tremble at the thought. For centuries you’ll murder your friends and hail the führers of all nations, of all proletarians, Russians and Prussians. Year in, year out, you’ll hail one master after another. You won’t hear the whimpering of your infants, the moans of your adolescents, the stifled longings of your wives or husbands, or, if you do, you’ll dispose of all that as bourgeois individualism. On through the centuries you’ll shed blood instead of safeguarding life, confident that with the executioner’s help you’re building your freedom. And day after day, year after year, you’ll find yourself up to your ears in muck. On through the centuries you’ll flock to hear Bigmouth, you’ll cherish his words and succumb to his evil lures, but you’ll be blind and deaf to the call of your own life. Because you’re afraid of life, little man, mortally afraid.

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