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Over fifty years ago, Erich Fromm positioned a vision of The Sane Society in which humanistic beliefs of relatedness and freedom prevailed.  In contemporary American portrayals of popular culture, arguments are positioned regarding gender identity and sexual orientation that apply to these Frommian principles.  Some proponents of equality have taken steps toward love, plurality, freedom, relatedness, and compassion with regard to gender identity and sexual orientation, whereas opponents of equality have promoted fear, hate, alienation, conformity, and orgiastic experience.  Contemporary attempts to degrade and control minority groups exemplify the promotion of orgiastic experience (or escapism).  Additionally, opponents of equality disregard social justice principles of respect and self-determination.  Erich Fromm believed that without developing the capability to love our self and other people, people devolve into insanity and alienation.  Contemporary opponents of equality intentionally attempt to repress, suppress, and/or oppress freedom and relatedness thereby promoting alienation and insanity.