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>Those who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society. The frustrated, oppressed by their shortcomings, blame their failure on existing restraints. Actually their innermost desire is for an end to the “free for all.” They want to eliminate free competition and the ruthless testing to which the individual is continually subjected in a free society.
t. Eric Hoffer, "The True Believer"
How true is this statement, historically?
Fanatics and zealots absolutely never clamor for "freedom" though.
>>1422014
>The frustrated, oppressed by their shortcomings, blame their failure on existing restraints
t. Every single neofreudian pop-psychology explanation for everything ever
"dude you're just insecure about your own shortcomings xD"
When will this meme fucking die?
>>1422014
It sounds like bullshit.
>>1422232
>he just doubles down on the "dude you're insecure" explanation
Yes
Because that's why ISIS is chopping off people's heads, blowing themselves up, and destroying everything they consider idolatrous and pre-islamic
Because they're "just insecure"
Yes
>>1422211
1789.
>>1422237
ISIS doesn't advocate a free society though. They want a caliphate with society controlled by their specific interpretation of Sharia law
>>1422794
The book is about mass movements and the motivations of their fanatical followers in general, including social, national, and religious movements. You're the one misrepresenting Hoffer's arguments.
