Doug's Good Books

For Fromm, you can't have it both ways.  That's part of the charm of his notion: you either are a lot ... or you have a lot.  It's a psychic equation of sorts.  For, if you have a lot ... and then you want more ... and you decide that you want to be more ... well, you can't.  It's one or the other.  You see, Fromm points out that you can't fool yourself into wanting to have more being.  Being isn't something that you have, it is something that you are.  There, go wrap that around your conditioned mind for a spell.