“Woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform to nonconformity.” Eric Hoffer
Just to segue from communitarianism to baseball and on to Jung’s “The undiscovered self,” I had a chance to revisit a moment in time at a pivotal point in history that may have been a catalyst for me way back that served to open the doorway for being receptive to listening to what Alan had to say.
Melissa, I know you said you knew someone who lost their life on 9/11/01
Here’s a video from 9/17/01 from a baseball game, and Jack Buck read a poem to everyone there:
As time went on and the dust settled, I came to associate this other poem with how I felt about what came after that baseball game and learning that there were ongoing agendas that had been planned long before 2001 that most never knew about and most people seemingly will never know about. It’s funny how the poem was written decades before but it’s set in New York City in September:
Just reading through the “undiscovered self” after having watched to the end of that clip with the fireworks going off at the baseball stadium, I encountered the word “fireworks” in the second chapter and it seems to fit what’s happening here with the individual being lost in the mass when emotions were high after the tragic events of 9/11/01
“Brass bands, banners, parades and monster demonstrations are no different than ecclesiastical processions, cannonades and fireworks to scare off demons. Only, the suggestive parade of State power engenders a collective feeling of security which, unlike religious demonstrations, gives the individual no protection against his inner demonism. Hence he will cling all the more to the power of the State, i.e., to the mass, thus delivering himself up to it psychically as well as morally and putting the finishing touch to his social depotentiation. The State, like the Church, demands enthusiasm, self-sacrifice and love, and if religion requires or presupposes the “fear of God,” then the dictator State takes good care to provide the necessary terror.”
“Woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform to nonconformity.” Eric Hoffer
Just to segue from communitarianism to baseball and on to Jung’s “The undiscovered self,” I had a chance to revisit a moment in time at a pivotal point in history that may have been a catalyst for me way back that served to open the doorway for being receptive to listening to what Alan had to say.
Melissa, I know you said you knew someone who lost their life on 9/11/01
Here’s a video from 9/17/01 from a baseball game, and Jack Buck read a poem to everyone there:
https://youtu.be/hUyj8BrK1cU?si=VEKKX_lXaqEXzRyV
As time went on and the dust settled, I came to associate this other poem with how I felt about what came after that baseball game and learning that there were ongoing agendas that had been planned long before 2001 that most never knew about and most people seemingly will never know about. It’s funny how the poem was written decades before but it’s set in New York City in September:
https://poets.org/poem/september-1-1939
Just reading through the “undiscovered self” after having watched to the end of that clip with the fireworks going off at the baseball stadium, I encountered the word “fireworks” in the second chapter and it seems to fit what’s happening here with the individual being lost in the mass when emotions were high after the tragic events of 9/11/01
“Brass bands, banners, parades and monster demonstrations are no different than ecclesiastical processions, cannonades and fireworks to scare off demons. Only, the suggestive parade of State power engenders a collective feeling of security which, unlike religious demonstrations, gives the individual no protection against his inner demonism. Hence he will cling all the more to the power of the State, i.e., to the mass, thus delivering himself up to it psychically as well as morally and putting the finishing touch to his social depotentiation. The State, like the Church, demands enthusiasm, self-sacrifice and love, and if religion requires or presupposes the “fear of God,” then the dictator State takes good care to provide the necessary terror.”
Chapter 2