My friend Gregory Gravelle (from Into the Absurd podcast) and I discuss Carl Jung's essay, "The Undiscovered Self." The ensuing conversation questions the precarious position of the "mass man's" place in the modern world as an individual. The term "mass man" is used by Jung to denote that modern man is increasingly driven, disempowered by, and manipulated through mass forces of government, media, public opinion, propaganda, technology, and many other aspects of a larger, alienating, all-encompassing and ever-more complex industrial civilization, leaving us with one primary question: how can the individual protect themselves from the ever encroaching mass forces of an already coercive and deceptive modern western culture?
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Music (Adobe Stock):
Aloha by Feelin Fine
Woozy Duck by North Circuit
Video Image:
Book cover image signed by artist Jovas/Jonas (sp), from New American Library's 9th printing of Jung's The Undiscovered Self
Relevant Links:
Greg's Website, Into The Absurd (Link to the first episode of our "Self Reliance" Series): https://into-the-absurd.com/2021/08/12/37-self-reliance-an-analysis-with-mynaa-miesnowan-part-1/
Into The Absurd Podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6b6iTLzd74NhzdJkyaAjtb
Carl G. Jung's "The Undiscovered Self": https://fleurmach.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/jung-the-undiscovered-self-1957.pdf
Nietzsche's "The Greek State": http://www.stephenhicks.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Nietzsche-Greek-State-text.pdf
George Orwell's Politics and the English Language: http://www.stephenhicks.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Nietzsche-Greek-State-text.pdf
My website (writings, other podcasts, and this podcast on other platforms): bezabezar.com