Contemporary Life
-
From Wotan to Baal: Brown Shirts and Red Hats
Of course Baal emerged through ‘the files.’ Jung saw the Brown Shirt as the vestment of Wotan; today, the Red Hat marks the rise of Baal—the god of the transaction.
-
The Architecture of the Global Shadow: A Jungian Map of the Epstein Era
The release of the Epstein Files has been treated as a sordid true-crime tally—a ledger of names and depravities. But what if we moved beyond the literal? In this exploration, I’ll apply a Jungian lens to examine it as physical manifestation of a Global Collective Shadow.
-
Greed, Gatsby, and Guillotines
A Great Gatsby themed party on the night before millions of Americans lose their SNAP benefits? Let’s explore this event through a symbolic lens.
-
The Economy of Authoritarianism: Supply-and-Demand Between King and Collective
Is authoritarianism simply a political misstep? We’ll examine the psychic ‘supply and demand’ chain: how the Shadow King’s neurotic fear of weakness meets the Collective void of an Unintegrated Father Complex, all facilitated through an unconscious psychological exchange.
-
America’s Father Complex
How does an unintegrated Father Archetype create a massive, collective psychic void, that leaves us terrified of freedom and obsessed with certainty? Why does this Father Complex fuel the demand for absolute authority make us profoundly vulnerable to an authoritarian’s promises?
-
Rise of the Shadow King
Is an authoritarian leader truly strong, or is he terrified? How does the Shadow King archetype, driven by a paralyzing fear, offer a fragile illusion of order? Does his need for loyalty consume a populace hungry for certainty?
-
Fake Scarcity and the Lie of Lack
In an abundant civilization, why does the Lie of Lack persist? The disparity we witness today isn’t an economic failure; it’s Fake Scarcity, and our system relies on it.
-
AI is Taxidermy
Everyone argues about AI’s impending doom or glory, but they’re asking the wrong question. Is AI a new form of life, or just an expertly curated preservation of the past? It’s the latter. AI is not consciousness—it is taxidermy.
-
The Self is not a Spreadsheet
We track everything—steps, calories, personality types, behavioral patterns. Even if we don’t, our devices do. AI learns our habits and feeds them back to us, refined and optimized. But what if psychological health requires embracing what can’t be measured?
-
The Wondrous Calabash
In this Lucumi pataki (story), the wondrous calabash tells the merchant what to do, until he stops thinking for himself. Let’s ponder AI’s effect on our cognitive processes through this story.
TAGS
AI (Artificial Intelligence) (5) Asleep at the Will (2) Autonomic Synergeia (1) Awakening (5) Collective Shadow (12) Contemporary Life (22) Dormant Soul Complex (4) Eudaimonic Sovereignty (3) Extraction (6) Fairy Tale (5) Individuation (3) Jung (13) Koinonic Syntonomy (1) Ontology (1) Social Theory (18) Systems Thinking (5)