Every Trivial Fact #3 - Carl Jung's Undiscovered Self with Gregory Gravelle (On Mass Man, Mass Forces, and Psychic Epidemics, Part 1 of 2)

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