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innerearth.bsky.social
Advanced candidate in Jungian training. Advocates leaving pessimism for better days. Aspiring to be "decently unconscious" (Aniela Jaffé). https://innerearth.substack.com/. https://jungiantoronto.com/.
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Carl Jung: "No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? ... That's what a nation is: a monster. Everybody ought to fear a nation. It is a horrible thing ... That's why I am for *small* nations. Small nations mean small catastrophes. Big nations mean big catastrophes".

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What would it look like if, in the 21st century, governments were as serious about allocating resources to peacemaking as they are about conscripting the public purse? "For whatsoever a man soweth..."

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Facing our polycrisis and completely lacking in imagination, the 'centre' can only conceive of a hysterical militarism. Neither adaptation nor human welfare but war-war is their clarion call. Worse still, these cosseted, infantile mediocrities have no ken of the charnel house—no tragic sensibility.

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Valentin Bulgakov (1914): "Our enemies are—not the Germans, and—not Russians or Frenchmen. The common enemy of us all, no matter what nationality to which we belong—is the beast within us."

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The latter is inevitably (hypocritically) instrumentalised, but the former, potentially, can repair binary judgements.

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A "steel porcupine", says von der Leyen. What a degraded, life-denying, robotic image for a country's future.

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An important insight from Ursula Franklin, the late Quaker educator: Conscientious objection should apply equally to how taxes are purposed—it ought not to be assumed that public revenue is available for war or war in advance, in the form of standing armies.

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Carl Jung: "It is the face of his own evil shadow that grins at Western man from the other side of the Iron Curtain" (Man and His Symbols).

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I'm holding out for an alternative articulation of Christianity... open.substack.com/pub/markvern...

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It would be fairer to say that Bly, Hillman and Meade identified the danger of the lacunal male and attempted a path beyond the "Western, Protestant, scientific, Apollonic ego", now erroneously repackaged as 'Jungian'.

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Freud: "[B]y accepting the universal neurosis [the individual] is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis."

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"We should remember that history is not only what happened in the past but what could have happened but never did, adding an element of contingency to historical development. Our task must be to courageously explore the paths not taken in history..."

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This is a fine essay, rich in political and psychological insights.

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This is a must-watch for anyone who believes in justice and refuses to be silenced.

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Arnold Toynbee: "Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilisations. The single art of war makes progress at the expense of all the arts of peace."

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A short, tangential reflection on Musk as Hercules—we can but hope that the second half of the myth lies ahead.

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Norman O. Brown: "Mankind today is still making history without having any conscious idea of what it really wants or under what conditions it would stop being unhappy; in fact what it is doing seems to be making itself more unhappy and calling that unhappiness progress."

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If everything is up for grabs, let's re-imagine everything, the whole megillah, and usher in an age of participatory fantasy à la "All power to the imagination!" Or is it only the post-fascists who have the gall for dreampolitik?

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The supply of interpretations far exceeds the demand. - Harry Stack Sullivan

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... we sing because shouting is not enough / nor is sorrow or anger / we sing because we believe in people / and we shall overcome these defeats ... / ... we sing because it is raining on the furrow / and we are the militants of life ... 〜 Mario Benedetti

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That said, it is as if Stanley Milgram or Philip Zimbardo is presently running an experiment.

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The US has been a pain in the keister since forever.

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“Philosophy has already been assassinated in many places and could well be eradicated everywhere. Just as the witches have been burnt, eliminated away, and by the same kind of people, the ones that think that thought is made for reasoning and brooms for cleaning.” Stengers

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My very short video explaining the very simple reason that America's chip war on China increases the chances of real war on Taiwan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=auNR...

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Non-fungible token Caesarism—something like that.

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Pascal: "Men are so necessarily mad that it would be another twist of madness not to be mad."

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Good piece by @simonkuper.bsky.social. It is worth adding that this coterie is English-speaking. Libertarianism intersects their upbringing as a counterpoise to Afrikaner nationalism and petty apartheid while spurring its exploitative logic. 'Liberal' Anglos often assumed this higher 'moral ground'.

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Trust me: 2025 doesn’t want to be here either.

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Jacques Lacan: "[J]ust because people demand something from you doesn't mean that's what they really want you to give them."

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Brain rot? The OED word of the year should be genocide.

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#OtD 26 Dec 1862 the largest mass execution in US history took place when 38 Native American Dakota people were hanged. Some trials lasted less than five minutes, and Pres Lincoln personally reviewed the trial paperwork and approved the death penalty stories.workingclasshistory.c...

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If you're a psychoanalyst and appalled by the silence from psychoanalytic institutes and organizations, you can sign here: docs.google.com/document/u/1...

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Your archetypal weather report.

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Munther Isaac: "Christ is still under the rubble..."

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I especially like her description of prayer as metacognitive: "of taking thoughts to another thinker (a god or spirit) with the result that the one who prays does not react directly but slows down to observe."

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T. M. Luhrmann's How God Becomes Real turns belief on its head by arguing that it is 'kindled' through attention and practice—the *how* of real-making. "This is not an atheist's book. It is not a believer's book. It is an anthropologist's book and a work of the anthropology of mind..." #Books

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cherish the blossoms blooming in your heart during the cold of winter Basho

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