—Rollo May (1909-1994), American ordained minister turned existential psychologist.
So who said “Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.”? May did, in his 1969 book Love and Will. That was adapted by Elie Wiesel in 1986 to “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference,” which is ironically better known.
Another interesting May quote was way ahead of its time: “Lacking positive myths to guide him, many a sensitive contemporary man finds only the model of the machine beckoning him from every side to make himself over into its image.”
He said this in …1967!
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Randy Cassingham is best known as the creator of This is True®, the oldest entertainment feature on the Internet: it has been running weekly by email subscription since early 1994. It is social commentary using weird news as its vehicle so it’s fun to read. Click here for the site — basic subscriptions are free.
Comments? Sorry: Facebook retired their commenting system (they didn’t even bother to alert me). Just as well, I suppose, but sadly there is no way to recover the many hundreds of comments made on this site. Lesson learned: never rely on someone else’s site for prime functions, especially “social media”!
Since this site is mostly retired now (maximum of one new post per month), I did decide that since all comments are now gone that I would not attempt to install any new commenting system. -rc
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