Posted by: jruthkelly | September 12, 2009

Of Automatons and Packaged Personality . . .

“Automatons cannot love; they can exchange their ‘personality packages’ and hope for a fair bargain.”

Erich Fromm – The Art Of Loving

And sometimes that fair bargain tastes pretty darn yummy but what does it nourish?

Packages?

Packages?

Soulfulness produces personhood with flavors rich and varying. Automaton-ness produces manufactured “person.” As much as I love macaroons, I know they will ultimately make me ill. They do not sustain abiding wholeness. Or life itself. So…

Be careful…you might live…

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Responses

  1. So tempting…….

    • Hey Jessica…I suppose we can indulge and then run run run it OFF. Or, in my case, T-Tapp it off. Thanks for the pleasure of your visit! Keep it coming…


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