The Shallow State:
The reason history repeats itself so often is because we don't study it and/or learn from it.
Trump is a malignant narcissist. It's THE pathology responsible for history's greatest inhumanities. He feels no empathy, shame, or contrition. Not that he won't - he CAN'T.
And THIS is what we're normalizing.
Jung attributes it to periodic upsurges in consciousness which
brings an unconscious reaction.
enantiodromia: reversal, pendulum.
MAGA is a case.
"The 2Wwar was a psychical phenomenon.
looking for the causal root of it, it could not possibly be explained as arising out of the reason of man or out of economic necessity.
One could say that Germany needed a greater expansion and had to go to war, or that France felt threatened and had to crush Germany.
But nobody was threatened—
@Bix
everybody had enough money, German exports were increasing, Germany had all the expansion she needed.
economic reasons don’t explain that phenomenon. It was simply the time when that thing had to happen from unknown psychical reasons.
Any great movement of man has always started from psychical reasons; so it is our experience that has taught us to believe in the psychical. Therefore we are rightly afraid of mob psychology, for instance. Every man of today will take that into account.
@Bix
And formerly man did not believe in the value of advertising; now look what is done with it!
Or would anybody have believed that the little sheets which appeared every fortnight—gazettes, which we now call newspapers—would be a world power?
The press is recognized as a world power today; it is a psychic fact.
Carl Jung, on Kundalini Yoga