Self Help
Obviously this change is made so that the manufacturer
can sell more clothes.
For the same reason the manufacturers of automobiles (with a few
rare and very sensible exceptions) change styles every season.
The manufacturer of clothing knows how the man-animal fears to
wear a garment which is one season out of step with "that which they
are all wearing now."
Is this not true?
Does not your own experience back it up?
We have been describing the manner in which people behave under the influence of the fear of Criticism as applied to the small and petty things of life. Let us now examine human behavior under this fear when it affects people in connection with the more important matters connected with human intercourse.
Take, for example, practically any person who has reached the age of "mental maturity" (from thirty-five to forty-five years of age, as a general average), and if you could read his or her mind you would find in that mind a very decided disbelief of and rebellion against most of the fables taught by the majority of the religionists. Powerful and mighty is the fear of CRITICISM!
The time was, and not so very long ago at that, when the word "infidel" meant ruin to whomsoever it was applied. It is seen, therefore, that man's fear of CRITICISM is not without ample cause for its existence.
The fourth basic fear is that of: THE FEAR OF LOSS OF
LOVE OF SOMEONE The source from which this fear originated needs but little
description, for it is obvious that it grew out of man's nature to steal his
fellow man's mate; or at least to take liberties with her, unknown to her
rightful "lord" and master.
By nature all men are polygamous, the statement of a truth which will, of course, bring denials from those who are either too old to function in a normal way sexually, or have, from some other cause, lost the contents of certain glands which are responsible for man's tendency toward the plurality of the opposite sex.
There can be but little doubt that jealousy and all other similar forms of more or less mild dementia praecox (insanity) grew out of man's inherited fear of the Loss of Love of Someone.