Listen, Litle Man

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Introduction

Listen, Little Man! Is a human and not a scientific document. It was written in the

summer of 1945 for the Archives of the Orgone Institute without the intention ofulishing it. It was the result of the inner storms and conflicts of a natural scientist

and h"sician who watched, over decade first naivel", then with ama#ement and

finall" with horror, what the Little Man in the street does to himself$ how he suffers

and reels, how he esteems his enemies and murders his friends$ how, wherever he

gains ower as a %reresentative of the & eole' he misuses this ower and ma(es it

into something more cruel than the ower which reviousl" he had to suffer at the

hands of individual sadists of the uer classes.

)his *)al(+ to the Little Man was the uiet answer to gossi and defamation. -or

decades, the emotional lague has tried again and again to (ill orgone research note

well/ not to rove it incorrect, ut to (ill it " defamation0. Orgone research carries a

ver" heav" resonsiilit" for human life and health. )he fact ustifies the ulication

of this %)al(' or a historical document. It seemed necessar" for the %man in the street'

to learn what goes on in a scientific wor(sho and also to learn what he loo(s li(e to

an e2erienced s"chiatrist. 3e must learn to (now realit", which alone can

counteract his disastrous craving for authorit". 3e must e told clearl" what

resonsiilit" he carries, whether he wor(s, loves, hates or gossis. 3e must learn

how he ecomes a -ascist, e it the lac( or red variet". 3e who fights for the

safeguarding of the living and the rotection of our children must needs e against the

red as well as the lac( -ascist. ot ecause toda" the red -ascist, li(e the lac(

-ascist efore him, has a murderous ideolog", ut ecause he turns livel" and health"children into criles, roots and moral idiots$ ecause with him, the state comes

efore right, the lie efore truth, war efore life$ ecause the child, and the

safeguarding of the living in the child, remains our onl" hoe. )here is onl" one

lo"alt" for the educator and h"sician/ that to the living in the child and the atient. If

this lo"alt" is strictl" adhered to, the great uestions of %foreign olitics' also find

their simle solution.

)his %)al(' does not iml" that one should ma(e it the attern of one's e2istence. It

descries storms in the emotional life of a roductive, ha" individual. It does not

want a, convince or win an"od". It ictures e2erience as a ainting ictures a

thunderstorm. )he reader is not as(ed to li(e it. 3e ma" read it or not. It does notcontain an" intentions or rogrammes. All it wants to do is to win for the researcher

and thin(er the right to ersonal reaction, which one has never denied, to the oet or

hilosoher. It is a rotest against the secret and unrecogni#ed intention of the

emotional lague to shoot its oison arrows at the hardwor(ing researcher, from a

safe amush. It shows what the emotional lague is, how it functions and retards

rogress. It also attests to the confidence in the tremendous unmined treasures, which

lie in the deth of human nature/ read" to e ut in the service of fulfilling human

hoes.

)he living, in its social and human interrelationshi, is naivel" (indl" and thus, under

revailing conditions, endangered. It assumes that the fellow human also follows thelaws of the living and is (indl", helful and giving. As long a. then is the emotional


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lague, this natural asic attitude that of the health" child or the rimitive, ecomes

the greatest danger in the struggle for a rational order of life. -or the lague individual

also ascries to his fellow eings the characteristics of his own thin(ing and acting.

)he (indl" individual elieves that all eole are (indl" and act accordingl". )he

lague individual elieves that all eole lie, swindle, steal and crave ower. 6learl",

then, the living is at a disadvantage and in danger. 7here it gives to the lagueindividual it is suc(ed dr" and then derided or etra"ed$ and where it trusts it is

cheated.

)hat's the wa" it has alwa"s een. It is time for the living a, ecome hard when

hardness is needed in the struggle for its safeguarding and develoment$ in doing so,

it will not lose its (indness if it stic(s to the truth courageousl". )here is hoe in the

fact that, among millions of industrious, decent individuals then an alwa"s onl" ust a

few estilential individuals who cause murderous mischief " aealing to the dar(

nod dangerous imulses in the structure of the armored mass individual and lend them

to organi#ed olitical murder. )here is onl" one antidote to the germs of the emotional

lague in the mass individual/ his own feeling of living life. )he living dots not as(for ower ut for its roer role in human life. It is ased on the three illars of love,

wor( and (nowledge 3e who has to rotect the living against the emotional lague

has to lean to use the right to free seech as we eno" it in America at least as well for

the good as the emotional lague misuses it for the ad. 8ranted eual right in the

deression of oinion, the rational finall" must win out. )his is an imortant hoe.

Listen, Little Man!

)he" call "ou %Little Man', %6ommon Man'$ the" sa" a new era has egun, the %ra of

the 6ommon Man'. It isn't "ou who sa"s so, Little Man. It is the", the :ice ;residentsof great nations, romoted laor leaders, reentant sons of ourgeois families,

statesmen and hilosohers. )he" give "ou "our future ut don't as( aout "our ast.


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I understand "ou. -or, man" thousands of times, I have seen "ou na(ed, h"sicall"

and s"chicall", without a mas(, without a art" card without "our %oularit"'.

a(ed li(e a neworn, na(ed li(e a -ield Marshal in his underants. o, first of all, have a loo( at "ourself see "ourself as "ou reall" are.

Listen to what none of "our -uhrers and reresentatives dares tell "ou/


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else nood" e2cet "ou "ourself carries the resonsiilit" "ou're "our slaver".

ood" else.

)hat is not new, isn't it


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)he less "ou understand, the more read" "ou are to give reverence.


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so man" words that "ou and "our life, "our famil" and "our children, amount to

nothing, that "ou are stuid and suservient, that one can do with "ou what one

leases. )he" do not romise "ou ersonal freedom, ut national freedom. )he" do

not romise "ou selfconfidence ut resect for the state not ersonal greatness, ut

national greatness. >ince %ersonal freedom' and %ersonal greatness' are nothing to

"ou ut vague concets, while %national freedom' and %the interests of the state' ma(e"our mouth water li(e a one that of a dog, "ou loudl" acclaim them. one of these

little men a"s the rice for genuine freedom, as did Fesus, Carl Mar2 or Lincoln.

)he" do not love "ou$ the" desise "ou, since "ou desise "ourself, Little Man. )he"

(now "ou well$ far etter than a Boc(efeller or the )ories (now "ou. )he" (now

"our worst wea(nesses m a wa" in which onl" "ou should (now them. )he" have

sacrificed "ou to a s"mol, and "ou carr" them to ower over "ourself.


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I do not eat children$ I do not fish and do not shoot deer or raits. =ut I am a good

shot and li(e to hit the ull'se"e. I do not la" ridge and do nor give arties in order

to sread m" theories. If m" teachings are correct the" will sread " themselves.

I do not sumit m" wor( to an" health official unless he has mastered it etter than I

have. And I determine who has mastered the (nowledge and the intricacies of m"discover".

I strictl" oserve ever" law when it ma(es sense, ut I fight it when it is osolete or

senseless. @on't run to the @istrict Attorne", Little Man, for he does the same if he is

a decent individual.0

I want children and adolescents to e2erience their odil" hainess in love and to

eno" it without danger.

I do not elieve that, in order to e religious in the good and genuine sense of the

word, one has to ruin one's love life and has to ecome rigid and shrun(en in od"and soul.

I (now that what "ou call %8od' actuall" e2ists, ut in a different wa" from what "ou

thin(/ as the rimal cosmic energ" in the universe, as "our love in "our od", as "our

honest" and "our feeling of nature in "ou and around "ou.

I would show the door to an"od" who, under whatever flims" rete2t, were to tr" to

interfere with m" medical and educational wor( with atient or child. In an" oen

court, I would as( him some ver" simle and clear uestions, which he could not

answer without eing ashamed ever after. -or I am a wor(ing man who (nows what aman reall" is inside, who (nows that he amounts to something, and who wants wor(

to govern the world, and not oinions aout wor(. I have m" own oinion, and I can

distinguish a lie from the truth, which, ever" hour of the da", I use li(e a tool and

which after use, I (ee clean.

I am ver" deel" afraid of "ou, Little Man. )hat has not alwa"s een so. I m"self was

a Little Man, among millions of Little Men. )hen I ecome a natural scientist and a

s"chiatrist, and I learned to see how ver" sic( "ou are and how dangerous "ou are in

"our sic(ness. I learned to see the fact that it is "our own emotional sic(ness, and not

an e2ternal ower, which ever" hour and ever" minute, suresses "ou, even though

there ma" e no e2ternal ressure.


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Man, when man" other Little Men tell "ou that that these men are great. )A@ 73


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=ut he did not tell "ou wh" "ou are that wa". 3e tried to ma(e "ou into a suerman,

an %?ermench'$ in order to overcome the human in "ou. 3is %?ermench' ecame

"our %-uhrer 3itler'. And "ou remained the %?ermench'.

I want "ou to sto eing an %?ermench' and want "ou to ecome "ourself. inclair, @os ;asses and others. =ut "ou didn't (now of Mann or >inclair.


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haired, has a long hoo(nose and shar e"es. )he Fews are avaricious and caitalistic.

%%3ave "ou ever seen a Mediterranean -renchman or Italian together with a Few 6an

"ou distinguish them' %7ell, not reall".' %7hat, then, is a Few )he lood icture

shows no difference$ he does not loo( different from a -renchman or Italian. And

have "ou ever seen 8erman Fews' %>ure, the" loo( li(e 8ermans.' %And what is a

8erman' %A 8erman elongs to the ordic Ar"an race.' %Are the Indians Ar"ans'%>ure.' %Are the" ordic' %o.' %Are the" lond' %o.' %>o "ou see, "ou don't (now

what is a 8erman and what is a Few.' %=ut there are Fews.' %6ertainl" there are Fews,

ust as there are 6hristians and Mohammedans.' I mean the Fewish religion.' %7as

Boosevelt a @utchman' %o.' %7h" do "ou call a descendant of @avid a Few if "ou

don't call Boosevelt a @utchman' %7ith the Fews it's different.' %7hat's different'

%I don't (now.'

)hat's the wa" "ou drive, Little Man. -rom "our drivel "ou create armed formations

and these sla" ten million eole as %Fews' though "ou cannot even tell what a Few is.

)hat's wh" one laughs at "ou, wh" one avoids "ou when one has serious wor( to do,

that's wh" "ou stic( in the morass. 7hen "ou sa" %Few' "ou ma(e "ourself feelsuerior.


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creature, "ou don't understand "our own words/ lavs, the old laws of comulsive marriage reestalished, ecause "ou did not (now

that "ou should let Lenin's ig deed live

Of all this "ou (now nothing at all, for what is truth to "ou or histor", or the fight for

"our freedom, and who are "ou, an"how, to have an oinion of "our own

omeod" tells "ou of se2econom", which understands "ou and

would li(e to hel "ou. It would li(e to ma(e "ou live "our se2ualit" at night so that

during the da" "ou would e free of se2ual thoughts and caale of doing "our wor(.It would li(e to see "our wife ha" in "our arms instead of deserate. It would li(e to

see "our children ros" instead of ale, loving instead of cruel. =ut "ou, hearing of se2

econom", sa"/ %>e2 isn't ever"thing. )here are other imortant things in life.' )hat's

the wa" "ou are, Little Man.

Or "ou are a %Mar2ist/ a %rofessional revolutionar"', a woulde %-uhrer of the

roletarians of the world'. to, sto, "ou

roletarian masses!


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%>e2ualit" is a etitourgeois invention. It is the economic factors that count.' And

"ou read :an de :elde's oo( on love techniues.

7hen a great man set out to give "our economic emanciation a scientific asis "ou

let him starve.


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e wor(ed for and wants to e earned. =ut "ou onl" want to devour hainess, that's

wh" it escaes "ou$ it does not want to e devoured " "ou.

In the course of time, the discoverer succeeds in convincing man" eole that his

discover" has ractical value, that, it ma(es it ossile to treat certain diseases, or to

lift a weight, or to last roc(s, or to enetrate matter with ra"s so that the insideecomes visile.


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have alwa"s onl" ta(en, onl" ladled in what someod" else has resented to "ou on a

silver latter.


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afraid and call for "our olice. =ut "our olice has no ower over m" truth either.

ven "our oliceman comes to me, comlaining aout his wife and his sic( children.

7hen he dons his uniform he hides the man in himself$ ut he cannot hide from me$ I

have seen him na(ed too. %Is he registered with the olice Are his aers in order

3as he aid his ta2es Investigate him. 3e is a danger to the state and the honor of the

nation!' ocrates. =ut "ou never learn from

histor". ocrates, and ecause "ou still do not (now that "ou did, "ou

continue to remain in the morass.


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not individual treatment ut the revention of mental disorders. And "ou act again

"ou have acted for thousands of "ears/ "ou mention the ig goal without sa"ing how it

could e reached.


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and ever"od" (nows, that "ou go around in a eretual state of se2ual starvation$

that "ou loo( greedil" at ever" memer of the other se2$ that "ou tal( with "our

friends aout love in terms of dirt" o(es$ in rief, that "ou have a dirt", ornograhic

fantas". One night, I heard "ou and "our friends wal( along the street, "elling in

unison/ %7e want women! 7e want women! 6oncerned with "our future, I uilt u

organi#ations in which "ou might learn etter to understand "our miser" in life and todo something aout it.


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thin( as "ou thin(, and is the world as it is. Again, this is what "ou are li(e, Little

Man/ ometime, he hoed, there would e, there would have to e, among the man"

cac(ling, goling and shortsighted chic(ens, a little eagle caale of ecoming li(e

himself. )he lonel" eagle, to this da", has not given u this hoe. And so he continuesto hatch little chic(ens.


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child is stuorn, he smashes ever"thing, he cries out in nightmares, he can't

concentrate on his schoolwor(, he suffers from constiation, he is ale, he is cruel.

7hat should I do 3el me!' Or/ %M" wife is frigid, she doesn't give me an" love.

>he tortures me, she has h"sterical fits, and she runs around with a do#en men. 7hat

shall I do )ell me!' Or/ %A new, even more dreadful war has ro(en out, and this

after we had fought the war to end all wars. 7hat should we do' Or/ %)hecivili#ation of which I am so roud is collasing, as a result of this inflation. Millions

of eole have nothing to eat, the" starve, and the" murder, steal, deteriorate, and give

u all hoe. 7hat should are do' %7hat should I do' %7hat should one do' )his is

"our eternal uestion through the centuries. )he fate of great achievement, orn from

a wa" of living which sets truth efore securit", is this/ to e greedil" devoured "

"ou and to e shit out again " "ou. A great man" great, courageous and lonel" men

have told "ou long since what "ou should do. Again and again "ou have twisted their

teachings, torn them aart and destro"ed them. Again and again "ou tac(led them

from the wrong end, made the small error instead of the great truth the guiding line of

"our life, in 6hristianit", in the teaching of socialism, in the teaching of the

sovereignt" of the eole, in asolutel" ever"thing "ou touched, Little Man. 7h" do"ou do this, "ou as( I don't elieve that "our uestion is seriousl" meant. mith going to sa"'


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twentieth centur", "ou have again rought to flower the methods of the Inuisition.

lavic'. I thought )rieste was

a haror for shis from all over the world.


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roletariat of the world, led " its eloved -uhrer, the father of all eoles, of all the

Bussians, of all the >lavs, will free the eole I @own with the individualists and

anarchists!' And long live the -athers of all eoles and all >lavs, Little Man! Listen,

Little Man, I have some serious redictions to ma(e/ wedish hositalit".

At that time, "ou were a woulde -uhrer of all the suressed eole on earth. wedish institution of smorgasord. Man" foods and delicacies are

sread out, and it is left to the guest what and how much he will ta(e. )o "ou this

institution was new and alien$ "ou could not understand how one can trust human

decenc".


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hositale home. After the 8erman catastrohe I found "ou halfstarved in a ar(.


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feeling of the world, "our humanit", "our love and "our o" in creating. o, "ou

cannot murder me, Little Man. Once I was afraid of "ou, ust as efore I had elieved

in "ou too much. =ut I have gone e"ond "ou, and now I see "ou in the ersective of

thousands of "ears, forwards and ac(wards in time. I want "ou to lose "our fear of

"ourself. I want "ou to live more hail" and more decentl". I want "ou to have a

od" which is alive instead of rigid, I want "ou to love "our children instead of hatingthem, to ma(e "our wife ha" instead of %maritall"' torturing her. I am "our

h"sician, and since "ou inhait this lanet, I am a lanetar" h"sician$ I am not a

8erman, or a Few, or a 6hristian or an Italian, I am a citi#en of the earth. -or "ou, on

the other hand, there e2ist onl" angelical Americans and eastl" Faanese. %8ra him!

2amine him!' @oes he have a license to ractice medicine ;roclaim a Bo"al decree

that he cannot ractice without the consent of the (ing of our free countr"! 3e does

e2eriments aout m" leasure functions! Fail him! )hrow him out of the countr"!' I

have m"self acuired the ermission to engage in m" activities. ood" can give it to

me. I have founded a new science, which finall" understands "our life. he was m" neighor and (newthat I (et e2erimental mice in m" asement. >he was afraid the mice might crawl

under her s(irt and etween her legs. >he would not have this fear if she had ever

eno"ed love. It was in these mice that I learned to understand "our cancerous

utrefaction, Little Man.


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material'. Later, I met "ou again, this time in the erson of a small Fudge from the

=ron2, with the unfulfilled amition for a seat on a higher ench.


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on a uilding o. And when someod" tells "ou to ta(e resonsiilit" for the uilding

"ou call him a %traitor to the roletariat' and run to the -ather of all ;roletarians who

does not tell "ou so. or are "ou free, Little Man.


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sleeless nights to do so.


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little man with the gold raid, of whom nothing remained ut comulsor" militar"

training is disla"ed in "our oo(shos in large golden letters, ut m" Celer, who

foresaw "our cosmic origin, cannot e found in an" oo(store. )hat's wh" "ou don't

get out of the morass, Little Man. )hat's wh" I have to tell "ou off when "ou elieve

that I have wor(ed and worried for twent" "ears and sacrificed a fortune in order to

%suggest' the e2istence of the cosmic orgone energ" to "ou. o, Little Man " ma(ingall this sacrifice, I have reall" learned to cure the lague in "our od". educer of children'.

@o "ou rememer, Little Man "ou were then the resident of a scientific societ"0

how "ou sread the rumor that I had m" children witness the se2ual act )his was

after I had ulished m" first article on the genital rights of infants. And the other

time "ou then haened to e the temorar" resident of some %cultural association'

in =erlin0 when "ou sread the rumor that I too( adolescent girls for automoile rides

into the woods and seduced them I have never seduced adolescent girls, Little Man.

)hat's "our dirt" fantas", not mine, I love m" girl or m" wife$ I am not li(e "ou who

are incaale of loving "our wife end therefore would li(e to seduce little girls in the

woods. And "ou, adolescent girl, don't "ou dream of "our film star @on't "ou ta(e

his icture to ed with "ou @on't "ou aroach him and seduce him, retending to

e over eighteen "ears old And then @on't "ou go to court and accuse him of rae

3e is acuitted, or found guilt", and "our grandmothers (iss the hands of the great

film star. o "ou accuse him, oor, violated girl. Or "ou oor, raed

woman who e2erienced more se2ual leasure with her chauffeur than with her

husand. @id "ou not seduce "our colored chauffeur who had (et his se2ualit" more

nearl" health", little white woman And didn't "ou then accuse him of rae, oor helless creature, the victim of an %inferior race' o$ of course "ou were ure, and white,

"our ancestors came over on the Ma"flower, "ou are a %@aughter of )his or )hat

Bevolution', a ortherner or a >outherner whose grandfather grew rich " dragging

African egroes to America in chains. 3ow harmless, how ure, how white, how

little desirous of the egro "ou are oor little woman.


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man a single time, the life of man" a egro Few or wor(er would have een saved.

Fust as "ou (ill "our life in "our children so "ou (ill in the egroes "our in(ling of

love, "our frivolous ornograhic fantas" of lust. I (now "ou, "ou girls and women of

the rich. 7hat a"smal vileness "ou reed in "our rigid genitals! o, "ou daughter of

this or that revolution, I have no intention of ecoming an LL@. or a 6ommissar..

)hat I leave to "our stiff creatures in roes and uniforms. I love the irds and deer andchimun(s who are close to the egroes. I mean the egroes from the ungle, not the

ones from 3arlem, in stiff collars and #oot suits. I don't mean the fat egro women

with earrings whose inhiited leasure turned into the fat of their his. I mean the

svelte, soft odies of the girls of the >outh >ea whom "ou, the se2ual swine of this or

that Arm", %la"'$ girls who do not (now that "ou ta(e their ure love as "ou would in

a @enver rothel. o, daughter, "ou long for the living, which as "et has not

understood that it is e2loited and desised. =ut "our time has come. O6I)


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that wa" ac( in the Old Austria. 3ave "ou ever heard a :iennese coach driver "ell,

%3urrah, mein Caiser' o 7ell, "ou onl" have to listen to "ourself$ it is the same

music. o, Little 7oman, I am not afraid of "ou$ there is nothing "ou can do to me.

)rue, "our soninlaw is the @istrict Attorne", or "our nehew is the Assistant )a2

6ollector.


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And when the second ig war came to an end "ou found "ourself e2actl" where "ou

were efore it ro(e out. ;erhas a little more to the %left' than the %right', ut not one

millimeter -OB7AB@!


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living, its functions and characteristics, from "our wa" of life, onl" then will I e ale

to ma(e a real contriution to the scrutin" of the living and to "our future. I (now it

ta(es courage to disavow "ou. =ut I can continue to wor( for the future ecause I do

not it" "ou and ecause I do not have the urge to e made a little great erson as do

"our miserale -uhrers. -or a short time now$ the living has egan to reel when it is

eing misused. )his is the great eginning of "our great future, and a dreadful end toall ettiness of all little men. -or in the meantime we have reali#ed how the emotional

lague wor(s. It accuses ;oland of intentions of militar" aggression ust when it was

decided to attac( ;oland. It accuses the rival of the intention of murder when it was

ust decided to murder him. It accuses health" life of se2ual swinishness ust when

some ornograhic misdeed was hatched out. One has gotten "our numer, Little

Man$ one has seen ehind "our facade of wretchedness and itialeness. One wants

"ou to determine the course of the world, with "our wor( and "our achievements does

not want "ou to relace one t"rant " a worse one. One egins to demand of "ou ever

more strictl" that "ou sumit to the rules of life ust as "ou as( it of others$ that "ou

imrove "ourself as "ou critici#e others. One recogni#es etter and etter "our

gossiing disosition, "our greed, "our freedom from resonsiilit", in rief, "ourgeneral disease which smells u this eautiful world. I (now "ou don't li(e to hear

this that "ou refer to "ell, 3eill, "ou earer of the future of the roletariat or of the

-ourth Beich. =ut I elieve "ou will succeed less than in the ast. 7e have found the

(e" to "our secret of thousands of "ears.


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loose, in a last effort to maintain his feeling for life$ and since he was not strong

enough to gain his inner freedom from "ou, he came to me. 3e willingl" aid "our

alimon", three uarters of his income, as reuired " law, as a enalt" for his love of

freedom. -or he was a great artist, and art as well as genuine science does not tolerate

shac(les. =ut all "ou wanted was to e ta(en care of, " the man whom "ou hated

itterl", in site of the fact that "ou had a rofession of "our own. ociet" for ;lasmogen".

)his seems to e imressive. e2t time, an official sa"s to me/ %)here is something

ueer here. It sa"s "ou are an 3onorar" Memer of the International >ociet" for

;ol"gam". Is that correct' And we oth laugh aout "our little error, Little -antastic

7oman. @o "ou understand now wh" eole sa" vile things aout me =ecause of

"our fantas", and not ecause of m" wa" of living. Is not all "ou rememer of

Bousseau that he canted to go %ac( to nature', that he neglected his children and sent

than to an orhanage0 omething must e wrong here!' It will no longer hel "ou to

use such methods against the truth. 7e (now them.


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ever" waitress in the ehind, moral Little Man , 7 7A) O?B >O> A@

@A?83)B> )O = O;L< 3A;;< I )3IB LO: I>)A@ O-

8A8I8 I I) 6LA@>)IL. 7e want to resect the courageous and decent fathers and mothers

who understand and rotect the love of their adolescent sons and daughters. )hese

fathers and mothers are the germ of the new generations of the future, with health"odies and health" senses, without a trace of "our filth" fantas", Little Imotent Man

of the twentieth centur". %Listen to the newest one! A "oung man went to him for

thera" and had to run with his ants down ecause he attac(ed him homose2uall"!'

Aren't "ou driling lasciviousl" at "our mouth, Little Man, when "ou tell this %true

stor"' @o "ou (now that it grew on "our manure hea, from "our constiation and

"our lasciviousness I have never had homose2ual longings, li(e "ou$ I have never

had the desire to seduce little girls, li(e "ou$ I have never raed a woman, li(e "ou$ I

have never suffered from constiation, li(e "ou$ I have never stolen love, li(e "ou, I

have emraced women onl" when the" wanted me and I wanted them$ I have never

e2hiited m"self ulicl", as "ou do$ I have no filth" fantas" li(e "ou, Little Man.

%Listen to this/ he molested his secretar" so that she had to run out of the home. 3elived with her in one house, with the linds down, and the lights were on until three

o'cloc( in the morning!' And he was a volutuar" who cho(ed on astr", "ou said

aout @e La Mettrie$ and he lives in a lefthanded marriage, "ou said aout crown

rince Budolf and Mrs. leanor Boosevelt isn't uite all there, "ou said$ and the

;resident of ?niversit" has caught his wife with another man$ and the teacher at

this and that village school has a lover. @idn't "ou sa" these things, Little Man treet in ew


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and that all this did not ma(e "ou see red.


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an"thing secial or new. Al "ou have to do is to continue what "ou are doing/

loughing "our fields, wield "our hammer, e2amine "our atients, ta(e "our children

to school or to the la"ground, reort on the events of the da", enetrate ever more

deel" into the secrets of nature. All these things "ou do alread". =ut "ou thin( that

all this is unimortant, and that what is imortant is onl" what Marshal @ecoratus or

;rince Inflatus, the Cnight in shining amour, are doing. %=ut "ou are a visionar",doctor! @on't "ou see that Marshal @ecoratus and ;rince Inflatus have the soldiers

and the weaons to ma(e war, to draft me for war service, to shoot m" field, m"

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shining amour uilds "our atom oms o, it is again onl" little men who "ell, 3eil!,

instead of ceasing to ma(e atom oms.


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thin(ing in time, and not too late, as toda"$ when "ou will feel elevation in hearing

truths, and feel horror of formalities$ when "ou will have intercourse with "our wor(

comrades directl", and not through dilomats$ when "our adolescent daughter's

hainess in love will delight instead of enraging "ou$ when "ou will onl" sha(e "our

head at the times when one unished little children for touching their love organs$

when human faces on the street will e2ress freedom, animation and o" and nolonger sadness and miser"$ when eole no longer will wal( on this earth with

retracted and rigid elvises and deadened se2ual organs. uose I

advised "ou to sto all dilomac", and to relace it with "our rofessional and

ersonal rotherliness with all shoema(ers, carenters, machinists, technicians,

h"sicians, educators, writers, administrators, miners or farmers of all countries$ to let

all shoema(ers of the world decide the est wa" of roviding shoes to all 6hinese

children$ to let all miners find out " themselves how eole can e (et fromfree#ing, to let the educators of all countries and nations find out how neworn

children are to e guarded against later imotence and mental disease, etc. 7hat

would "ou do, Little Man, confronted with these matterofcourse things of human

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Man, when "ou sing the good old fol( songs, or when "ou dance to the tune of an

accordion, for the fol( songs are warm and soothing, and are the same all over the

world. And "ou are great when "ou sa" to "our friend$ %I than( m" good fate that it

was given to me to live m" life free from filth and greed, to e2erience the growth of

m" children, their first aling, reaching, wal(ing, la"ing, as(ing uestions,

laughing and loving$ that I (et m" full feeling for the sring and its mild winds, forthe uling of the roo( ast the house and the song of the irds in the woods$ that I

did not ta(e art in the gossi of vicious neighors$ that I was ha" in the emrace of

m" mate and was ale to feel the streaming of life in m" od"$ that in confused times

I did not lose m" sense of direction, and that m" life had a meaning. -or I have alwa"s

listened to the voice in m"self which said/ *)here is onl" one thing that counts/ to live

one's life well and hail". -ollow the voice of "our heart, even if it leads "ou off the

ath of timid souls. @o not ecome hard and emittered, even if life tortures "ou at

times.+ And in the uiet of the evening, the da"'s wor( done, when I sit on the

meadow in front of the house with m" wife or m" child and feel the reathing of

nature, I hear a melod", the melod" of the future/ *Oh "e millions, I emrace "e, 7ith

a (iss for all the world!D )hen I wish ferventl" that this life would learn to insist on itsrights, to change the hard and the timid souls who ma(e the cannons sound. )he" onl"

do it ecause life eluded them. And I hug m" little son who as(s me/ *father, the sun

has gone down. 7here has it gone 7ill it come ac( soon+ And I tell him/ *

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