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Never underestimate the sheer hate of the "middle class" (or those who dream with being middle class) towards the poor.
The more disastrous his pandemic handling was, the more people support him. It's psycho-sexual
He visited patients in their homes to see how they lived, and took to the streets in a mobile clinic, promoting adolescent sexuality
The practice of vegetotherapy involves the analyst enabling the patient to physically simulate the bodily effects of strong emotions. In this technique, the patient is asked to remove his or her outer clothing, lie down on a sheet-covered bed in the doctor's office, and breathe deeply and rhythmically.
In 1937 Reich began an affair with a female patient, an actress who had been married to a colleague of his.
Around the same time, Reich also had an affair with Gerd Bergersen, a 25-year-old
In 1940 he began to build insulated Faraday cages, "orgone accumulators", that he said would concentrate the orgone.
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I'm not aware of any evidence of Reich being a pedophile, but he definitely pushed the envelope, let's say, in his relationships with some of his analysands. You're going to think I'm crazy when I say this, and you're completely right to think that way, but I have a couple of friends who are super into Reich. With my permission they placed an orgone accumulator (basically just a metal bowl) on my knee. Within about ten or fifteen minutes it felt like my knee was like scalding hot. I had to take the metal bowl off. I was impressed.
People consider Reich a crank and some of his followers definitely strike me that way. The weirdest thing about him is that he was persecuted for basically being a quack when he came to the USA, and he ultimately died of a heart attack in prison. I find that pretty strange since the USA has pretty much always been overrun by quacks, few of whom ever see time in a prison cell. He was probably attacked here for being a communist, but I don't think he was pushing his communism too hard when he was living in the USA.
He definitely had an interesting life, encounters with everyone from Einstein to the feds, and a communist at that.
How did your friends explain the metal bowl? Was any material added to it? Was it connected to anything? Charged in advance like a balloon rubbed against a carpet or something?
I believe the bowl was iron, but orgone accumulators are supposed to be a mix of several materials. I didn't examine it closely because we were actually very busy preparing for an election at the time, although I was sitting for the entire time I used it. As far as I could tell, it wasn't charged or connected to anything. If you're curious about it you could try building one of your own to see what happens, although I haven't gone this far. After I took it off my friend told me that I was using it incorrectly and that I needed to be more cautious. Who knows, the entire thing might have just been some kind of placebo effect, but if you do actually build one and find that it works, make sure to proceed with caution.
Sorry, I hadn't checked this comm in a bit. Just like Trump supporters, Bolsonaro supporters seem to have their minds shielded from reality by years of imperial and reactionary propaganda. They rightly feel that politicians don't have the people's best interest at heart, but due to the state of the communist movement they are presented no other option in the mainstream other than fascism. Thus, they support Bolsonaro as a negation of politics itself in a childish, counterproductive lash at the ruling class and the political establishment - well, that's what they think it is, in truth we know that the two groups I mentioned are fonder of Bolsonaro than a left-liberal like Lula.
Some of these people aren't completely lost, they know something is wrong with bourgeois democracy, but since only fascism has reached them, that's the answer they go with.Right now it looks like the Worker's Party is set to win the next election, though it's too early to tell. Even if he lost, bolsonarismo has become a major force in Brazilian electoral politics and the main antagonist to labor, surpassing Macron-type neoliberals. Even if Lula wins it doesn't look like he'll be able to form a government coalition in congress, but I'd say that the revolutionary left is outpacing the fascists in growth (they have stagnated/began to shrink imo) and if it's able to keep it up and use its growing numbers effectively Brazil could see something special happen in the long-term, provided fascism doesn't take over till them.
Also, if you have any questions or want to know more about Brazil don't be shy, I'd be more than happy to help you.
