Monday, July 03, 2006

My Section 3

I think this chapter does run a long the same lines as the last. But few things do stick out in it for me.

PARTS OF THIS are things I can just imagine President Reagan reading and loving. Jung lacks the very provocative and colorful language (Evil Empire, etc.), which is good, but I think in places they would have really gotten on. Reagan found a way to break down the USSR from the inside by bankrupting them in an arms race. The problem is that the things about the West that Jung was afraid of were not address and are still not resolved.

THE FACT THAT the West and the Communists worked on the same materialistic assumptions is a great thing to point out. We are locked into a scientific and materialistic worldview that heralds progress towards goals that are as unattainable and often as harmful to the individual as the Marxists were. This we need to watch out for. I agree with this assessment very much and I wish more people would come to see it that way.

I AM LEAVING the rest of my comments out there in replies.

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