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It sets forth experience as a painting sets forth a storm. It does not propose to convince or to win adherents. It describes the emotional storms of a productive individual who loves life. This appeal does not ask to be taken as a guide to life. If he is true to this allegiance, he will find simple answers to his political problems. An educator and physician knows only one allegiance: to the life-force in child and patient. Not because the red fascists, like the black fascists in their day, have a murderous ideology but because they make cripples, puppets, and moral idiots of living healthy children because they exalt the state over justice, lies over truth, and war over life because children and the preservation of the life-force that is in them are the only hope we have left. Anyone who is fighting for the safeguard of life and the protection of our children must necessarily oppose red as well as black fascism. He must learn how he gets to be a black or red fascist. He must be made acquainted with the reality which alone can counteract his ruinous craving for authority and be told very clearly what a grave responsibility he bears in everything he does, whether he is working, loving, hating, or just talking. It was felt that the common man must learn what a scientist and psychiatrist actually is and what he, the little man, looks like to his experienced eye. The decision to publish this appeal as a historical document was made in 1947, when the emotional plague conspired to kill orgone research (n.b., not to prove it unsound but to kill it by defamation). When it was written, no one could foresee that a government agency charged with the safeguard of public health, in league with politicians and psychoanalytical careerists, would unleash an attack on orgone research.
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This appeal to the little man was a silent response to gossip and slander. It reflects the inner turmoil of a scientist and physician who had observed the little man for many years and seen, first with astonishment, then with horror, what he does to himself how he suffers, rebels, honors his enemies and murders his friends how, wherever he acquires power in the name of the people, he misuses it and transforms it into something more cruel than the tyranny he had previously suffered at the hands of upper-class sadists. ยน At the time there was no intention of publishing it. It was written in the summer of 1946 for the Archives of the Orgone Institute. LISTEN, LITTLE MAN! is a human, not a scientific document.