9 Sep 2018

Taking a break from the high school Im building to check the headlines and I see one that reads 'black actors win all guest categories for first time'.  Or something like that.  I wonder if the word 'won' is quite appropriate.  The unfortunate consequence of being told that blacks are victims all the time is that any achievement by them, well, almost any, is immediately questioned.  Was it legitimate or was it simply guilt that gave it to them, i.e a shakedown...?

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Hm, Apple bans Alex Jones for objectionable content.  Wonder whats next.  Someone will probably knock me off the web for being a hateful git...

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Reading some Carl Jung tonight and two very important observations intersected like a bolt of lightning and understanding was gained.  This may get a bit involved...

First, understand that societies in general can be viewed from a mass psychiatric viewpoint just like an individual.  An excellent fictional story in this vein is ‘The Foundation Trilogy’ by Isaac Asimov.

Second, understand that history is cyclical in nature.  It may not have appeared so to people in times past (a point which I would actually argue) but in our modern age we have no excuse for not realizing that.  The preeminent work on this in my opinion is ‘The Fourth Turning’ by William Strauss and Neil Howe.  Easily one of the books that made the greatest impact on my life!

So while reading Carl Jungs work on dream interpretation this evening he noted that when a society takes symbols that have a religious value and importance to them and repress them, they dont just disappear.  The energy they carry in particular does not vanish.  Energy, of any kind, is not created or destroyed, just ask Newton.  It merely changes form.

In this instance, the energy is repressed into a sort of dark, societal shadow, just like the shadow archetype hat Jung wrote about at length for the individual.  As a result, it will manifest in unpredictable manners down the road, and generally unpredictably bad.

So I realized that this is the general driving factor behind the chaos and entropy that drives and feeds the Fourth Turning portion of the saecular cycle.  Society spends the better part of 60-70 years repressing things and those things then turn right around and destroy the society.

In our current case, we have been told by the people with the megaphones (i.e. media, government, Hollywood, education, medicine, all the usual suspects) that the biggest problems with modern life, at least here in the west, are whiteness, maleness, heterosexuality, Christianity, conservatism, etc.

So all the energy that could have gone into a healthy expression of these things and kept the bedlam to a dull roar will instead resurface with a vengeance.  And I tremble for our world once it breaks loose.  Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war indeed.  As Remus would sagely advise, stay away from crowds!

That is all for now.  I have not re-read for editing, I simply want to get this thought out there.  Im headed to bed so I can see what dreams may come of this...