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@johnmilbank3 James Hillman and the archetypal psych crew - scholar-practitioners of extraordinary sophistication - have a great deal of insight to proffer on precisely this subject. Inter-disciplinary aggregators and integrators as a rule, their perspective, as such, balanced, big and broad.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 10 Feb 2024

@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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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.”
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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.”

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @nils_gilman What if the Day the future lands upon 'The Whole World's Now' defines the world-historical turn or 'radical philosophical event' as you name it? Our crisis forever deferred finally irrupts as Adorno's "redemption of the future from the power of history" - the religios' Parousia.Quoted by@nils_gilman What if the Day the future lands upon 'The Whole World's Now' defines the world-historical turn or 'radical philosophical event' as you name it? Our crisis forever deferred finally irrupts as Adorno's "redemption of the future from the power of history" - the religios' Parousia.