#destructiveness

- desperately wants to prove how right they are and latches on to anyone available to listen

- centers all conversations around their ego

- instructs rather than constructs

- is not open to unconventional possibilities

- is narrow-minded and conservative

- probably adds fuel to my decaying mental state

Those individual and social conditions that make for suppression of life produce the passion for destruction that forms, so to speak, the reservoir from which the particular hostile tendencies—either against others or against oneself—are nourished.

Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom

Life has an inner dynamism of its own; it tends to grow, to be expressed, to be lived.

It seems that if this tendency is thwarted the energy directed toward life undergoes a process of decomposition and changes into energies directed toward destruction.

The drive for life and the drive for destruction are not mutually independent factors but are in a reversed interdependence.

The more the drive toward life is thwarted, the stronger is the drive toward destruction; the more life is realized, the less is the strength of destructiveness.

Erich Fromm,Escape from Freedom

➡️ see also: Wilde & Reading Gaol (Part One) – Wilde & Reading Gaol (Part Two) – Wilde & Reading Gaol (Part Three) – Wilde & Reading Gaol ( Part Four) Each man kills the thing he loves,by each let this be heard.Some do it with a bitter look,some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss,the brave man with a sword.Some kill their lovewhen they are young,some when they are old.Some…