@lukeburgis The price to be paid, perhaps, for a nationalist fallacy of exceptionalist absolution from the unicity of planetary reality and consequence. The transpersonal psychotherapist John Welwood: "As one spiritual wag put it, 'Self-knowledge is always bad news, at least initially.'"
@iyad_elbaghdadi Exactly. The false freedom of a form of subjectively-isolated deferral and denial making for an infantilized, collective experience of psychological security, serenity and affirmation by concealing the humanity of our victims and the truth about the violence inflicted on them.
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Copy of tweet: The bastard appeal of the status quo: the refusal to lament. Hillman: "The capacity to deny, to remain innocent, to use belief as a protection against sophistication of every sort – intellectual, aesthetic, moral, psychological – keeps the American character from Awakening.”