In 1957, Carl Jung wrote:
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"Everywhere in the West there are subversive minorities who, sheltered by our humanitarianism and our sense of justice, hold the incendiary torches ready, with nothing to stop the spread of their ideas."
Jung believed only a small “mentally stable”… pic.twitter.com/lU3F953aRf
In 1957, Carl Jung wrote:
"Everywhere in the West there are subversive minorities who, sheltered by our humanitarianism and our sense of justice, hold the incendiary torches ready, with nothing to stop the spread of their ideas." Jung believed only a small “mentally stable” portion of the population keeps things together. His estimate was that only ~40% are psychologically grounded. The rest are one bad day away from breakdown. The point he was making is that most people are not rational. Their emotions possess them and when the pressure gets high enough: - Logic stops working. - Slogans take over. - Fantasy replaces reality. That’s when societies starts feeling like its upside down. Jung called it a “psychic epidemic.” A kind of mass psychological contagion. He estimated that for every crazy person you see, there are ten more that are able to mask their perversity just enough to fit in to society. While they may not break out openly, their "views and behaviour, for all their appearance of normality, are influenced by unconsciously morbid and perverse factors." In that state, irrational people rise to the top, extreme ideas are normalized, and emotion overrides truth. "Their mental state is that of a collectively excited group ruled by affective judgments and wish-fantasies." Their delusional ideas, which hide their fanatical resentment, appeal to the irrational, "for they express all those motives and resentments which lurk in more normal people." "They are, therefore, despite their small number in comparison with the population as a whole, dangerous as sources of infection."
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