We in the world whose governments support genocide don't know ourselves, and are perhaps afraid to know, especially if we're not doing anything to stop it.
Have to say you are right on about a white New Yorker in Montana. It gives me a minor headache on a regular basis, often down to sheer paternalism (an assumption that we're all ignorant hicks who would do X, Y, or Z differently if we only knew better).
Strange coincidence--synchronicity?--I've been a little obsessed with Carl Jung over the last year. I haven't fully dived into his own writings, but have been watching, reading, and listening to a lot of explainers and writings about his ideas. "Individuation" in particular, and the processes that help a person build it, is something I keep looking for more of.
I read his book on the undiscovered self. What a fascinating little read that is just massive. Every sentence in it meant something. Maybe I should just dive in and consider it the next project after I completed the "Dostoevsky project" this year..
I would love to follow along if you do. The sheer richness of his thoughts is part of why I've been reading more *about* his ideas before fully diving in.
"Our human history has been an attempt to write a collective narrative for our own histories, with dots of individual contributions in between the narrative." Ooooh this entire piece is so good. I love your reflections and I love how deeply you are exploring the many nuances of this topic. Gave me so much to sit and reflect on in my own life and understanding of self. PS – thanks for the shoutout :)
No thanks needed. I just start a train of thought and see where it leads, and I stop when I stop.. I didn't even re-read it again hah. So don't want be horrified by the grammar/stylistic mistakes I made..
We in the world whose governments support genocide don't know ourselves, and are perhaps afraid to know, especially if we're not doing anything to stop it.
1000%. couldn't agree more.
Have to say you are right on about a white New Yorker in Montana. It gives me a minor headache on a regular basis, often down to sheer paternalism (an assumption that we're all ignorant hicks who would do X, Y, or Z differently if we only knew better).
Strange coincidence--synchronicity?--I've been a little obsessed with Carl Jung over the last year. I haven't fully dived into his own writings, but have been watching, reading, and listening to a lot of explainers and writings about his ideas. "Individuation" in particular, and the processes that help a person build it, is something I keep looking for more of.
I read his book on the undiscovered self. What a fascinating little read that is just massive. Every sentence in it meant something. Maybe I should just dive in and consider it the next project after I completed the "Dostoevsky project" this year..
I would love to follow along if you do. The sheer richness of his thoughts is part of why I've been reading more *about* his ideas before fully diving in.
The first thing I came across was, thanks to YouTube's algorithm, this video on the dark night of the soul: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gadPDDRC_F8
"Our human history has been an attempt to write a collective narrative for our own histories, with dots of individual contributions in between the narrative." Ooooh this entire piece is so good. I love your reflections and I love how deeply you are exploring the many nuances of this topic. Gave me so much to sit and reflect on in my own life and understanding of self. PS – thanks for the shoutout :)
No thanks needed. I just start a train of thought and see where it leads, and I stop when I stop.. I didn't even re-read it again hah. So don't want be horrified by the grammar/stylistic mistakes I made..