Sunday, March 17, 2013

Thought for the day

Atrophy of feeling is a characteristic of modern man and always shows itself as a reaction when there is too much feeling around, and in particular too much false feeling. From the lack of feeling in “Ulysses” we may infer a hideous sentimentality in the age that produced it. But are we really so sentimental today?…there is a good deal of evidence to show that we actually are involved in a sentimentality hoax of gigantic proportions. Think of the lamentable role of popular sentiment in wartime! Think of our so-called humanitarianism! The psychiatrist knows only too well how each of us becomes the helpless but not pitiable victim of his own sentiments. Sentimentality is the superstructure erected upon brutality.
-Carl Jung

The nostalgia (or sentimentality) we feel towards "what America used to be" is the superstructure we have erected upon OUR brutality. This applies especially to so-called "conservatives" and members of the Tea Party.

No saints live here.

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