Eric Hoffer

In “Accepting or Rejecting Innovation”, Jared Diamond explains three reasons why people adopt technological innovations. The first factor is the comparison of the economic advantage with existing technology. Wheels are known to be useful in modern industrial societies, but in other societies, they may not have been. Native Americans in ancient Mexico used wheeled vehicles as toys instead of using them for transportation because of the lack of domestic animals at the time, which did not offer any…

Hoffer writes, “The frustration engendered by the unavoidable sense of insecurity is less intense in a minority intent on preserving its identity than in one bent upon dissolving in and blending with the majority. A minority which preserves its identity…

In the article “The Ordeal of Change,” author Eric Hoffer states that the condition is necessary for people who experience drastic change to be able to turn fear into action is to have the opportunities to gain self-esteem and self-confidence. People that have self-confidence and self-esteem are usually hungrier for action without having fear. However, it is necessary for people to have opportunities because without opportunities, it is hard for people to change their condition of misfits in a…

“Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature,” Eric Hoffer. Yes this may be random, but so is life. You can still learn from random things in life. These topics are just that random but you can always learn something. "Dessert began from the French word desservir, signifying "to clear the table." In the United States, Canada, and Australia the last meal is called dessert, In the United Kingdom the last meal is called "pudding". “Sweets were fed to the gods in…

Eric Hoffer once said “There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it.” In Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare, the reader can identify obvious differences between the distant brothers- Don John and Don Pedro- William Shakespeare took a heroic figure’s noticeable traits and further defined and exaggerated them by adding Don John, a villainous figure, to the story. The relationship between these two characters illuminates the play because…

Propaganda in George Orwell’s 1984 “Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.” as said by Eric Hoffer, unintentionally depicting the world of George Orwell’s 1984, in which propaganda leads people to deceive themselves into believing usually false concepts. Propaganda can be traced back to 1622, where Pope Gregory XV defined it as “convincing large numbers of people about the veracity of a given set of ideas”, according to a website titled A Brief History…

Rebellions are seen throughout the course of human history as a way to protest something a group of people believes a government or ruler has done wrong (Merriam). They occur in almost every country all over the world and can be used to protest a variety of issues. Without rebellions the chances of changes in the problem are unlikely. When the government or a ruler is acting in a way that is harmful to the people, rebellions became a useful and necessary tactic to help to convince the other…

Eric Hoffer, an American moral and social philosopher, once said, “The superficiality of the American dream is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things out; it needs leisure to mature. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.” Hoffer believes that this dream has become a rushed thing, so many people are trying to reach it as soon as possible that they settle for a shell of what they had originally…

Yours is Yours, Mine is Better People live in a world where change is happening faster than before. There are always new trends and discoveries. An example is the recent video that was uploaded by a teenager about his best friends’ everyday clothes and shoes and saying “damn Daniel” and “damn Daniel, back at it again with the white vans” became viral on the internet. After this a lot of people have made their own versions of this video. Affiliated with this idea is the use of technology. Along…

Throughout ages there have comparatively been more leaders using fear and less of those using love and a very low amount of those who managed to combine. By inspiring fear for instance Stalin was killing his own people while Hitler was killing foreigners. Both of those leaders were about to gain respect and confidence in peoples’ eyes that the way chosen by a head of the state is unambiguous and could not be disputed. Author of ‘The Prince’ insisted that even if the head by its nature cannot…