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EnergyShifts.net's avatar

Very good work, thank you. Carl Jung spoke of these deep mythological undercurrents in his: "Essays to Contemporary Events" and "The Fight With the Shadow". He goes into great detail about the archetypes. Here are a few quotes:

"Maybe Germans were predestined to this fate, for they showed the least resistance to the mental contagion that threatened every European".

"As early as 1918, I noticed peculiar disturbances in the unconscious of my German patients which could not be ascribed to their personal psychology."

"The only difference lay in the German mentality itself, which proved to be more susceptible because of the marked proneness of the Germans to mass psychology"

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Bruno B's avatar

Germany is still largely a nation of followers, of habitual obedience to authority. One-on-one, they will often agree with me that things are heading in the wrong direction. That egregious mistakes are being made in the management of the country. In groups, they are hesitant to speak out equally critical, apprehensive of being labelled a "Querdenker" (roughly, a contrarian thinker), which carries with it the implicit association of being a far-right extremist, and all that implies. No, the vast majority of people here - young and old - wilfully take as gospel what the official German mass media outlets feeds them as the Truth. Be it Covid, climate change, energy policy, refugees and immigration, or now, Russia. There is only good and evil, no in-between. And so it goes, as it must.

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