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Re: Joey Barton - If I were PM...
Feb 25, 2015, 15:40
It's just a shame we need a big myth, or a catch-all logical system, in order to glean the benefits. It is possible we're transitioning into something else, possibly something better, after religion governing everyone's lives for so long. We've filled in the gap with relentless individualism, ambition that takes no prisoners. That's where we're at right now, but it's always been the flaw of philosophers and thinkers to apply to the future the laws of the present. Like when Wilhelm Reich and Freud said sexual repression is at the root of our neurosis. Now porn is ubiquitous are we all better? Sexually, we're arguably even worse- unable to relate to human souls without first mentally banging their bodies; and younger men feeling sexually sated enough by porn not to need a relationship. (I know that seemed tangential, but bear with me). Jung may have had the foresight to realise that taking religion and myth out of our lives will leave a gulf to be filled by lesser beings, but maybe with a bit more foresight he might have seen that it could be replaced by something a little less forbidding and ineffable. Could be wistful thinking, but I do reckon that eventually people will cotton onto the fact that careerism, money accruing, as a life goal isn't massively fulfilling. The growth of your apartment size, your office, your stuff, is a way of tangibly measuring our arch in life, so that's one of the reasons why I think it works for so many, but the joy of empathy, of stepping outside of your own cramped head-space into another's, is too rich not to reassert itself. I adore stories and myth and having legions of alternative dimensions created by our own imagination hovering in the periphery of our lives, but I think it's only a matter of time before we stop needing the parable to learn the moral.
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