@SophiaCycles Adorno: “Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. This is what is radically evil." Apropos Jung : "We move toward individuation both singularly and collectively."
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Copy of tweet here: There is alas nothing more normal than to refuse to believe that a cataclysm — even when it is staring in your face — is about to engulf your life. While necessary for mental health, this instinct blinds people to oncoming calamities. What definition of ‘mental health’ exactly? A conscious identification with the unicity of planetary reality and consequence? Or the false freedom of subjectively-isolated deferral and denial? Heschel, routing the derangement: “Impartiality with regard to history is a pretense.”
@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.'"