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“The phenomena which I would call the pathology of normalcy, that is to say the pathology of the normal man. …

Anyone who really sees reality, who sees what is really real, will appear to the person who lives under the illusion that the world is alright, as a slightly crazy person. Sometimes he might be, but not necessarily so.”

Erich Fromm, The automaton Citizen and Human Rights Lecture given at the American Orthopsychiatic Association’s 43rd Annual Meeting in San Francisco on April 13,1966