third wilhelm reich
watched the wilhelm reich documentary on netflix… i guess i was hoping for more stuff about his theories on hitler and communism, and a bit less about the trial and the FDA burning his books thing.
reich strikes me, similar to jung, as someone who is quite good at asking questions and quite terrible at attempting to answer them. i think it’s a fascinating topic to ask whether there is a tie between sexual repression and a willingness to follow fascism, and as so whether hitler was a construct that at its foundations had the atomic german family. i think it’s a much less interesting question as to whether the FDA was procedurally allowed to get an injunction against orgone accumulators. wish the movie talked less about the latter and more about the former.
incidentally, orgone accumulators were just wooden boxes. i was really hoping for some crazy steampunk glass and brass thing.
yes, i have an attraction to true believers of insane concepts, why do you ask?