22-03-2014, 09:06 PM
(This post was last modified: 22-03-2014, 09:25 PM by David Healy.)
David Guyatt Wrote:...
What does this tell us about the US?
The US? Since the two World Wars and the threat of nuclear holocaust? A moral crises (in the US) if there ever was one.
"... Or you might ask why a key characteristic of western culture is widespread overwork. Like the economist John Maynard Keynes, (Carl) Jung wondered whether modern individuals are trying to atone for an ill-defined sense of moral failure: we are no longer sure what makes something valuable, bar an arbitrary designation of financial worth, and this transforms the humdrum need for money into a kind of worship of money...."
--Carl Jung, part 8: Religion and the search for meaning
Jung thought psychology could offer a language for grappling with moral ambiguities in an age of spiritual crisis.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree...g-religion
in short: none of us know what-the-fuck is going on, including americans... just guesses!