General Discussion

Hard to admit, impossible to deny.

Every person has within them the capacity for empathy and community and the capacity for selfishness and cruelty.

As Jung observed, most of us reflexively avoid what he called “The Shadow” in ourselves altogether. Instead, we’d prefer to find fault in others and project our inadequacies onto them. Thus the same nation that produced Goethe and Beethoven can produce Hitler. The same society that produced Eleanor Roosevelt and Jonas Salk can produce Donald Trump.